All three terrorists involved in a Monday attack on a police
station in the Indian state of Punjab are dead, and the siege has ended,
according to Punjab's director-general of police.
Six victims were
killed -- three civilians and three security forces, said Dinkar Gupta,
director-general of police.
Earlier, the
gunmen fired at a nearby bus stand before storming the police station, which is
next to a hospital, said Gupreet Tur, police chief of Gurdaspur district.
Tur described
the raid as a terror attack but said it was not immediately clear to which
group the attackers belonged.
Sandwiched
between two rivers, Gurdaspur is Punjab's northernmost district and is close to
Pakistan.
Pakistan's
government condemned the attack.
"We condemn
in the strongest terms the terrorist incident in Gurdaspur, India, today, in
which a number of precious lives have been lost," a Pakistan statement
said. "There are reports of others having suffered injuries. Our thoughts
are with the bereaved families.
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