Nine killed in Indian police station siege

Nine people have died in the Indian state of Punjab after a siege at a police station was brought to an end by security forces.
All three attackers were killed, along with six other people, including the Punjab state police superintendent.
The attackers first hijacked a car then opened fire at a bus station before entering the police station in Gurdaspur district, officials said.
Police believe that the attackers are from Indian-administered Kashmir.
Gurdaspur Police Chief Salwinder Singh told the BBC: "The operation to flush out attackers is over. All three attackers have been killed."
The six victims included three policemen - among them police superintendent Baljit Singh - and three civilians.
The attackers were armed with automatic weapons and dressed in military fatigues.
Such assaults are common in disputed Kashmir, but attacks in neighbouring Punjab are extremely rare.
Gurdaspur's deputy police commissioner Abhinav Trikha told the AFP news agency that the attackers had holed up inside the residential quarters at the police station and were "firing continuously".
"They were dressed in army uniforms and came in a Maruti [Suzuki] car," he told reporters at the scene.
Security forces also found bombs nearby on the railway tracks at the Dinanagar railway station, according to Indian media.
-SS