Four people were killed in a shooting that occurred at dawn on Wednesday at a military base in northern India, the Indian army said.
The incident was reported around 4:35 a.m. (11:05 a.m. Paris time) at the Bathinda base in Punjab, where tensions are high amid the local resurgence of a Sikh separatist movement.
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The area remains cordoned off and joint investigations with the Punjab police are being coordinated to establish the facts
," the Indian army said in a statement.
Bathinda senior police officer GS Khurana told NDTV that the incident did not appear to be a terrorist attack.
Tense situation
The state police and the Indian Ministry of Defense did not respond to requests from AFP.
The situation is currently tense in Punjab where authorities have been unsuccessfully tracking separatist Sikh preacher Amritpal Singhpar since last month.
Aged 30, Amritpal Singh has made a name for herself in recent months by demanding the creation of Khalistan, a state claimed by Sikh separatists in Punjab, whose struggle sparked violence in the 1980s and 1990s that caused thousands of dead.
