Hardeep Nijjar killing: 50 bullets fired; coordinated attack, report claims citing video
Khalistani extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed in a coordinated attack by at least six men who arrived.
In two vehicles outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Canada’s British Columbia on June 18, The Washington Post reported, citing a review of a video footage. The report, which also contained accounts of Sikh community members present in the vicinity of the attack, said the attackers—two of them in hooded sweatshirts—fired roughly 50 bullets, of which 34 hit Nijjar.
Tensions flared between India and Canada following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s explosive allegations of a “potential” involvement of Indian agents in the killing of Nijjar, 45. India had designated Nijjar as a terrorist in 2020. India has outrightly rejected the allegations as “absurd” and “motivated” and expelled a senior Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move to Ottawa’s expulsion of an Indian official over the case.
NYT report on US’s intelligence on Nijjar’s killing
The Washington Post’s report comes days after The New York Times claimed that the US had provided Canada with intelligence after the killing of Nijjar, but communications intercepted by Ottawa were more definitive and led it to accuse India of orchestrating the plot. The NYT report, which cited sources, came on Saturday as the top US diplomat in Canada confirmed that there was “shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners” that had prompted Trudeau’s offensive allegation against India.
India had designated Nijjar, the chief of the banned Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), as a terrorist in 2020.
The United States has urged India to cooperate with Canada in its investigations.