Convoy Ambushed; Sikh Extremist Freed
CHANDIGARH, India — A dozen gunmen ambushed a police convoy Monday and freed a suspected Sikh extremist charged with directing a massacre of 14 bus passengers last year, a police spokesman said.
The spokesman said the gunmen, armed with automatic weapons, intercepted a heavy police guard transporting Harjinder Singh Jinda to a jail in northwestern Punjab. The gunmen forced the police to release the suspect, they said.
Jinda was arrested six months ago and charged as a prime suspect in the massacre of the mostly Hindu bus passengers on an isolated rural road near Muktsar.
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