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  • Temple attack: 'They made a kid say 'Vande Mataram', then shot him'

    09/26/2002 4:23:10 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 18 replies · 464+ views
    Sify News ^ | September 26 2002
    Farmer Nareshbhai Bariyar ran for his life as two clean-shaven youths turned into cold-blooded killers at the Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar, watching helplessly as his pregnant sister was cut down by machinegun fire. Bariyar, 33, and five other family members were performing their devotions at the Akshardham Temple in Gandhinagar on Tuesday afternoon when they heard a commotion. "There were loud sounds like gunshots and I saw people running like wild cattle here and there, from one room of the complex to another shouting atankwadi agaye, atankwadi agaye (terrorists have come, terrorists have come)," Bariyar told AFP. "I panicked at...