India, March 17 -- Gursidak Singh, alias Sidak, wanted for the grenade attack on the Thakur Dwara temple in Amritsar, was killed in an exchange of fire with police at Bal Sachander village near Sri Guru Ramdas Jee International Airport in the Rajasansi area on Monday. Another suspect, Vishal, managed to flee and efforts were on to arrest him, police said.

The motorcycle-borne masked men had carried out the grenade attack on the temple on Sher Shah Suri road in the Khandwala area at 12.45am on March 15. Though no one was injured, the blast damaged the walls and shattered windowpanes of the temple and triggered panic in the area.

Police acted on a tip-off about the motorcycle used in the incident and questioned its owner Varinder Singh, a...