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Gurdwara shootout: police find more evidence

Vienna/London: The Austrian police on Tuesday claimed to have found more evidence on the killing of a Sikh religious leader at a Vienna gurdwara, and recovered an arms cache from the home of an Indian man, who was arrested after a shootout.

Amrit Singh, a 26-year-old security company staffer, fired at the officers of the Wega and Cobra special forces, who searched nine flats and houses during a raid on Monday, Vienna police spokesman Michael Takacs said.

The Austrian-Sikh man was “immediately overpowered and taken into custody,” Mr. Takacs said. The police recovered guns and knives and confiscated the suspect’s car, media reports said, adding, more evidence had been found in the vehicle.

The officers were investigating the May 24 shootings at the Ravi Dass Gurdwara in Vienna-Rudolfsheim in which 57-year-old Sant Rama Nand, leader of Dera Sachkhand, was killed.

Hardeep Singh, a suspect who was released from preventive detention on June 5, had been taken into custody again by the police who said they had found more evidence linking the 33-year-old asylum-seeker facing deportation to the attack.

Six suspects were detained immediately after the attack. One of them, a suspected ringleader in the killing of Sant Rama Nand, is still in a coma in a Vienna hospital after he was shot in the head during the temple brawl. — PTI

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