NORTH HOLLYWOOD : Sikh Temple Vandalized by 3 Masked Gunmen
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Three masked gunmen forced their way into a Sikh temple in North Hollywood early Monday morning and held two church members at gunpoint as they destroyed a $14,000 security system and vandalized the temple’s telephones, church members and police said.
The men knocked on the temple’s front door about 1 a.m. and forced a church member to take them to a priest, whom they asked for by name, said Gursharan Singh Nat, treasurer of the Sikh Gurdwara of Los Angeles.
One masked man put a gun to the head of Sucha Singh, one of three priests at the temple, and forced him to unlock the door to a room containing the temple’s security system, which was installed two weeks ago, Nat said.
Singh and the other church member were ordered to stay in a back room while the assailants damaged a television monitor, tape player and video recorder.
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