{"id":198681,"date":"2026-04-19T19:40:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=198681"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:40:04","slug":"two-sikhs-shot-dead-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/04\/19\/two-sikhs-shot-dead-in-italy.html","title":{"rendered":"Two Sikhs shot dead in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/HGQrEpTboAAgSlR?format=jpg&amp;name=large\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" \/>Rome: Two Sikhs were shot dead in Covo, Bergamo province of Italy, just as they were leaving a warehouse used as a place of worship during a gathering for the Vaisakhi festival.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, reports said the attack occurred on Friday, a few minutes before midnight, in the square in front of the Gurdwara Mata Sahib Kaur in the industrial area of the town.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased were identified as Raginder Singh, 48, a resident of Covo, and Gurmit Singh, 48, from Agnadello.<\/p>\n<p>The assailant allegedly approached the men, opened fire and then fled in a car .According to initial findings, a sudden brawl that escalated into bloodshed has been ruled out, the reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately ten shell casings were recovered from the scene as authorities investigate the hypothesis of a \u201ccoldly planned execution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A witness was quoted as telling reporters that the shooter was \u201can Indian\u201d who also frequented the gurdwara.<\/p>\n<p>An official celebration for Vaisakhi was planned for Saturday nearby with the participation of local institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome: Two Sikhs were shot dead in Covo, Bergamo province of Italy, just as they were leaving a warehouse used as a place of worship during a gathering for the Vaisakhi festival. According to Kashmir Media Service, reports said the attack occurred on Friday, a few minutes before midnight, in the square in front of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/Police-lines.jpg.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198682,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198681\/revisions\/198682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}