Tension still persists between India and Canada over the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Meanwhile, an alleged video footage of this massacre has surfaced, in which some armed people can be seen firing bullets at this Khalistani separatist.
Nijjar was designated a terrorist by the National Investigation Agency in the year 2020. On the evening of June 18, 2023, he was shot dead as he came out of a Gurudwara in Surrey, British Columbia.
6 attackers came in 2 cars
Canadian news channel CBC News, which aired the footage, said the video was obtained by The Fifth Estate and independently verified by multiple sources. This attack has been described as ‘highly coordinated’, which was carried out by 6 people coming in 2 vehicles.
The video shows Nijjar leaving the gurudwara parking lot in his gray Dodge Ram pickup truck. As he approaches the exit gate, a white sedan stops in front of him, causing his truck to stop. According to the report of CBC News, after this, two people run and shoot Nijjar with bullets and run away in a Toyota Camry.
According to CBC, two witnesses who were playing football in a nearby field at the time of the incident revealed that they ran towards the area after hearing the gunshots and even tried to chase the attackers. Bhupinderjit Singh Sidhu, a witness, told The Fifth Estate, ‘We saw those two people running away. We started running towards where the sound was coming from.
According to Sidhu, he got involved in helping Nijjar and asked his friend Malkit Singh to chase the two people walking on foot. “He was completely unconscious,” she said. He was not breathing.
Regarding this targeted killing of the president of Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had alleged that the Indian government had a hand in Nijjar’s murder. India denied Trudeau’s claim and since then diplomatic relations between the two countries declined.