Our Correspondent

Tanda Urmar, November 15

A farmer was shot dead by unidentified car-borne assailants near Jaura village on Monday morning. The deceased has been identified as Parminder Singh Kala, son of Bhulla Singh, a resident of Nangal Farid village. The incident happened at around 10 am, when Parminder had come to irrigate his fields.

Unidentified assailants came in a white car and opened fire on him. The farmer sustained three gunshots and was taken to a private hospital in Bhogpur in a serious condition.

Later, he was taken to the government hospital in Kala Bakra but he succumbed during the treatment. SSP Kulwant Singh Heer, Tanda DSP Raj Kumar, SHO Bikram Singh and other police officers reached the spot and started the investigation.

The slain farmer’s daughter had gone to Canada last month to study, while his wife Manpreet Kaur and his son Arshdeep, a Class XII student, lived with him.

The police have registered a case against the unidentified killers and started investigation. Eyewitnesses, who saw the attackers fleeing from the spot, told the police that the attackers had come in an i-20 car with black coloured window glass.