 and Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga are wanted over the attempted hit on the Skripals Credit: PA:Press Association 13 The umbrella used in 1978 to kill Bulgarian dissident and broadcaster Georgi Markov Credit: Getty Images - Getty From a former Indian MP who was shot dead on live TV to a Russian double agent poisoned by a nerve agent in Salisbury, these are some of the world's most brazen assassinations in recent memory: Sikh leader shot dead It has been just three months since Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, was shot dead outside a temple in British Columbia. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed on Monday the country was "actively pursuing credible allegations" linking Indian government agents to Nijjar's murder. The Canadian citizen is understood to have supported a Sikh homeland in the form of an independent Khalistani state and was classed a "terrorist" by India in July 2020. Trudeau said he raised the murder with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the recent G20 summit in New Delhi and urged his government to "cooperate with Canada to get to the bottom of this matter". The Salisbury poisonings A couple were left critically ill and rushed to Salisbury Hospital after picking up a perfume bottle containing deadly Novichok believed to have been discarded by two Russian spies. Dawn Sturgess died aged 44 after spraying the fatal nerve agent on her wrists on June 30, 2018 and collapsing in Amesbury. Her partner Charlie Rowley, then 45, regained consciousness on July 10 and was re){kind=link}
THE brazen murder of a Sikh community leader in Canada is just the latest assassination in a spate of shocking attacks.
Assassins seem to be becoming increasingly bold in their schemes, employing tricky tactics and innocuous-seeming tools such as an umbrella or cup of tea.
From a former Indian MP who was shot dead on live TV to a Russian double agent poisoned by a nerve agent in Salisbury, these are some of the world’s most brazen assassinations in recent memory:
It has been just three months since Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, was shot dead outside a temple in British Columbia.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed on Monday the country was “actively pursuing credible allegations” linking Indian government agents to Nijjar’s murder.