Savitri Devi, a 28-year-old woman who was killed in the attack, saved her husband and their 5-month old daughter by shielding them from the bullets.
[2] A woman named Kalawati, jumped off the bus holding her three young children, and survived.
When it began raining, they gave up their attempt to burn the car, and escaped in a truck parked nearby.
[3] A van driver passing through the area also heard the cries of the survivors and called the Chandigarh Police.
[2] The Punjab Police assumed that the killers had escaped towards Chandigarh, and imposed a curfew in Mohali on its outskirts, to find them.
In both incidents, the attackers used another vehicle to block and stop the bus: this tactic had not been used in the earlier similar killings in the Punjab-Haryana area.
[3] After the Lalru and the Fatehabad killings, there were reports of attacks on Sikh-owned shops in Haryana, and of 12 buses being vandalized.
Protest strikes affected Chandigarh, Shimla, and many other towns in Punjab, Haryana, and the neighbouring Himachal Pradesh.