Grenade attack on northern India prayer hall kills 3

Three people were killed and over a dozen injured on Sunday when two men on a motorbike targeted a prayer hall with a grenade in northern India, police said. 

A man injured in a blast at Nirankari Bhawan, a prayer hall in nearby Adliwal village receives treatment at a hospital in Amritsar, India, Sunday, Nov.18, 2018. [Photo: AP]

The two masked men threw the grenade toward the hall belonging to a sect of the Sikh faith at a village on the outskirts of Amritsar city in Punjab state, said police officer Dinesh Singh. He said the grenade exploded away from the main congregation in the compound, where hundreds of devotees were praying. 

Singh said the 15 injured people were hospitalized.

Authorities have not yet blamed anyone for the attack. 

Police said the men fled from the scene after carrying out the attack.