Indian police storm religious leader's compound to find six dead


  • World
  • Wednesday, 19 Nov 2014

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian police on Wednesday deployed water cannon and a baton charge in storming the hermitage of a self-styled religious leader who is resisting arrest for murder, discovering six bodies in an operation to evacuate thousands of his followers.

Police brought out 10,000 people, many held against their will, from the hermitage of Satguru Rampalji Maharaj, a controversial guru who is based in Haryana, 170 km (105 miles) northwest of the capital New Delhi.

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