Sikh vendor shot lifeless by unidentified males in Pakistan's Peshawar: Report | World News

Gunmen shot and killed a member of Pakistan’s minority Sikh group in an in a single day assault throughout the northwestern metropolis of Peshawar, police talked about Sunday.

Gauher Khan, a neighborhood officer, talked about the assault on Manmohan Singh, 35, seemed to be a centered killing. A police investigation continues, Khan talked about, into the motive.

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Khan talked about the assailants opened fire at Singh whereas he was returning residence from a suburban house. The assailants fled the scene.

The Islamic State group in a press launch claimed responsibility for the killing, saying Singh had been a follower of what it known as a “polytheistic” Sikh sect in Peshawar. It moreover claimed wounding a Sikh throughout the northwestern metropolis the day prior to this.

It's the third killing of a Sikh group member this yr in Pakistan. Closing month, assailants gunned down Sardar Singh in a drive-by taking photos throughout the japanese metropolis of Lahore. In April, gunmen shot and killed Dayal Singh in Peshawar. Within the an identical metropolis in Might 2022, gunmen killed two members of Sikh group.

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Most Sikhs migrated to neighboring India in 1947, the yr British rule of the subcontinent ended and Pakistan was created as a homeland for Muslims throughout the space. Tons of of Sikhs stayed in Pakistan, the place they typically dwell peacefully. Nevertheless isolated assaults on minority Sikhs, Christians and members of the Ahmadi sect have continued.