Suspected Babbar Khalsa Terrorist Killed In Amritsar Blast, Probe On

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Last Updated:May 27, 2025, 15:07 IST

A antheral was injured successful a blast successful Punjab's Amritsar Rural territory and aboriginal died. Police fishy that the deceased accused was a subordinate of Babbar Khalsa International.

Police is investigating the blast successful Amritsar that killed a suspected terrorist. (PTI/File Image)

An detonation took spot adjacent the Naushera colony wrong Punjab’s Amritsar (Rural) territory connected Tuesday, allegedly sidesplitting a violent linked to Babbar Khalsa International, a banned Khalistani outfit, according to police.

Police officers received accusation and arrived astatine the country of the blast successful Amritsar, said SSP Amritsar Rural Maninder Singh. A idiosyncratic was earnestly injured successful the detonation and was admitted to a hospital, wherever helium reportedly succumbed to his injuries.

Police fishy that the accused is portion of a violent organisation who had travel to person a consignment of explosives. The SSP said helium was injured owed to the mishandling of an explosive.

“Babbar Khalsa and ISI is progressive successful Punjab and astir likely, helium is simply a subordinate of Babbar Khalsa," DIG (Border Range) Satinder Singh told quality bureau ANI, adding that further probe is underway. The individuality of the idiosyncratic is yet to beryllium revealed.

The man’s arms were blown disconnected successful the blast, according to respective reports. Officials are probing a panic angle, suspecting that the antheral was trying to retrieve the explosive erstwhile it went off, perchance owed to mishandling.

Locals reported proceeding a large blast followed by a panic successful the area, which has since been cordoned disconnected by police. A squad from the Forensic Science Laboratory was astatine the spot to cod samples of the explosive.

Earlier, the Border Security Force (BSF) recovered a drone and 3 packets of heroin during abstracted hunt operations on the Punjab borderline successful Tarn Taran, Ferozepur, and Amritsar districts, according to an authoritative statement.

Acting connected intelligence, BSF and Punjab Police connected Monday seized the drone and 3 packets of suspected heroin from farming fields adjacent the borderline villages. One packet of suspected heroin, weighing 550.18 grams, was recovered from a farming tract successful Punjab’s Tarn Taran district.

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Amritsar, India, India

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