Temple toll ‘700’
NZPA-Reuter New Delhi More than 700 people are now believed to have died when the Indian Army stormed Amritsar’s Golden Temple to flush out Sikh extremists, the Indian police said. The police, who had previously put the death toll at 500, said more bodies had been found under rubble in the temple which security forces attacked on Wednesday with machine-guns, rockets and mortars.
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Press, 12 June 1984, Page 6
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