VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) – Canadian police on Friday arrested three people in connection with the killing of a Sikh separatist leader last June in a Vancouver suburb that is at the center of a diplomatic dispute with India. announced that he had been arrested.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner David Teboul announced that three suspects have been arrested and charged in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, by a masked gunman in the Surrey suburb of Vancouver.
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However, police said they could not comment on the nature of the evidence or a motive. “This matter is currently under active investigation,” Teboul said.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sparked a diplomatic row with India in September when he said there was a “credible suspicion” that India was involved in Nijjar’s murder.
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India angrily denied any involvement.
