印度外長：國務卿克林頓承諾保障印度人安全

India's foreign minister says he has received U.S. assurances of the Indian commUnity's safety, following the killing of six worshippers at a Sikh temple in U.S. state of Wisconsin.

S.M. Krishna told reporters in New Delhi on Tuesday that he urged the full protection of all places of worship in the United States during a phone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton late Monday.

The foreign minister said Clinton, who is on a visit to South Africa, assured him that the Indian community's interests "is going to be quite safe under the present administration." Krishna said the secretary of state was "as disturbed as any one of us is in India."

Authorities say a gunman Sunday killed five men and one woman at the temple near Wisconsin's capital, Milwaukee, before he was shot dead by police.

Officials have identified as 40-year-old Wade Michael Page. They say he served in the U.S. Army for about six years in the 1990s before being discharged for misconduct.印度外長克里希納說，他得到美國保障印度社區安全的承諾。星期天，美國威斯康辛州的一座錫克廟發生槍擊案，6名去做禮拜的信徒被打死。

克里希納星期二在新德里對記者說，他在星期一晚上和美國國務卿克林頓通電話時敦促美國充分保護所有宗教場所。他說，正在南非訪問的克林頓向他保證說，印度社區的利益“在現政府執政時期是十分安全的。” 克里希納還說，克林頓國務卿“和我們所有印度人一樣對此感到不安”。

美國當局說，一名槍手星期天在威斯康辛州首府密爾沃基附近的一座錫克廟打死五名男子和一名婦女。這名槍手隨後被警察擊斃。

有關官員說，兇手名字叫韋德-佩奇，現年40歲，曾經在90年代在美國陸軍服役6年。他是由於行爲不端而被退伍.