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Article: Gandhi assailant called `lone wolf'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 3, 1986
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NEW DELHI Police yesterday questioned a "lone wolf" gunman
accused of trying to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
but instead wounding six people who were with him.
Chief government spokesman Ramamohan Rao identified the suspect
as a man in his mid-20s who at first gave his name as Manmohan Desai
but then changed it several times.
Witnesses said five bullets were fired in Gandhi's direction
yesterday as he left a ceremony marking the 117th anniversary of the
birth of Mohandas K. Gandhi. It was held at the Raj Ghat memorial in
old Delhi, where the man called the Mahatma (Great Soul) was cremated
after he was assassinated on Jan. 13, 1948.
The prime minister is not related ...