World IN BRIEF : INDIA : Separatist Violence Leaves 29 Dead

Sikh gunmen raided a shopping center and a residential district in the Punjab city of Jalandhar, killing at least 16 people and wounding 18, police said. A senior police officer blamed separatist Sikhs, who want to establish an independent nation in the rich farming state, for the slayings. Elsewhere in Punjab, Sikh gunmen killed four people in separate attacks. Police, battling the separatists, killed nine suspected militants in other incidents, the United News of India reported. Sikh radicals have killed an average of 16 people a day in Punjab in the last two weeks in ambushes, bombings and bus attacks, police said.