Shaheed Khalsa Force
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The Shaheed Khalsa Force (or Shaheed Khalsa Force) claimed credit for marketplace bombings in New Delhi
in 1997. The group was previously unknown.
district on 2 October 1997, wounding 27 people during a Hindu religious procession.
The same day, three bombs put in a train near Delhi killed 2 people and wounded 38, including 2 Japanese
visitors and 5 Australians.
Shaheed Khalsa Force also asserted responsibility for three explosions in Delhi on 10 October 1997 that killed a child and wounded 16.
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New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
in 1997. The group was previously unknown.
Bomb blasts
Shaheed Khalsa Force had asserted that it set off three blasts in a DelhiDelhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
district on 2 October 1997, wounding 27 people during a Hindu religious procession.
The same day, three bombs put in a train near Delhi killed 2 people and wounded 38, including 2 Japanese
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
visitors and 5 Australians.
Shaheed Khalsa Force also asserted responsibility for three explosions in Delhi on 10 October 1997 that killed a child and wounded 16.
Evidence about the group
All bombings for which Shaheed Khalsa Force claimed responsibility were in the Indian capital, Delhi. After 4-5 bomb-blasts in Delhi in 1997, the group was not reported again. Delhi police never arrested any member of SKF nor identified any of its leaders, so it remains unclear if the group was real or just a hoaxHoax
A hoax is a deliberately fabricated falsehood made to masquerade as truth. It is distinguishable from errors in observation or judgment, or rumors, urban legends, pseudosciences or April Fools' Day events that are passed along in good faith by believers or as jokes.-Definition:The British...
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