NE NEWS SERVICE
CHANDIGARH, FEB 8
Two persons were feared killed and 10 others injured when a blast occurred in a tractor-trailer during a nagar kirtan (religious procession) near Daleke village, 10 km from here on Saturday.
Superintendent of police, headquarters, Jagjit Singh Walia said, “two persons were killed on the spot, while several others were injured.”
The procession was on its way from Gurdwara Baba Deep Singh in Pahuwind village in Bhikhiwind sub-division to Gurdwara Tahla Sahib at Chabba village on the Tarn Taran-Amritsar road when the blast occurred at 4.30 p.m.
“The procession had just reached Daleke when the blast took place in a trailer of a tractor in which a chemical was stored,” said Manjinder Singh, a villager.
The dead were identified as Gurpreet Singh and Manpreet Singh.
Injured were shifted to civil hospital in Tarn Taran and Guru Nanak Dev Super Specialty Hospital in Amritsar. Further investigations are on, police sources said.
