Amritsar blasts: Newly-wed couple among 5 arrested after third low-intensity blast near Golden Temple
PK Jaiswar
Amritsar, May 11
Punjab Police have arrested five suspects, including a woman, after another low-intensity blast was reported near the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Thursday midnight– the third explosion in less than a week.
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The blast occurred just behind the Guru Ram Dass Inn. CCTV footage showed that the suspect allegedly threw the bomb from the second floor of Guru Ram Dass inn into ‘galiara’, or the pathway around the Golden Temple.
The suspect threw the bomb from the window of a washroom in the Guru Ram Das Inn.
