EDMONTON (Alberta, Canada), Dec 13: In the third such incident in a month, a 24-year-old Indian-origin Sikh was shot dead in Canada's Alberta province a week ago. The victim was identified as Sanraj Singh.

The incident happened in 51 Street, 13 Avenue, Mill Woods-area, of Edmonton, Capital of Alberta, at 8:40 pm on December 3. The police who arrived on report of gunshot in the area tried to revive Sanraj sitting in a car but failed. An autopsy was conducted. “The cause of death was gunshot wounds, and the manner of death is homicide,” an Edmonton Police statement said.

The police have collected images of a vehicle leaving the area at the time of the incident. Investigators appealed for dash or security camera footage from anyone near 50 Street on Saturday night around the time of the man's killing, saying it may help identify a suspect vehicle seen leaving the area, possibly an SUV.

This would be Edmonton’s 31st homicide of 2022.

In recent such incidents, a 40-year-old Sikh woman Harpreet Kaur, was stabbed to death in Surrey in Canada's westernmost province of British Columbia, a Sikh woman, 21 year-old Pawanpreet Kaur was shot dead at a petrol pump in Canada's Brampton in Greater Toronto Area in Ontario province, and another Punjabi teen, 18-year old Sikh teen Mehakpreet Sethi was stabbed to death in a scuffle at the parking lot of a high school, also in the city of Surrey.