Two accused in the killing of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan were shot dead by unknown gunmen in Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday. The accused have been identified as Amir Sarfaraz Tamba and a close associate of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist organization founder Hafiz Sayeed.
According to media reports, Tamba was attacked by motorcycle-borne assailants in the Islampura area of Lahore, Pakistan. He was taken to hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
Singh, 49, died of cardiac arrest at Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital in the early hours of May 2, 2013, after being in a coma for nearly a week following a brutal attack by inmates, including Tamba, at the high-security Kot Lakhpat jail. A group of Pakistani prisoners attacked Singh with bricks and iron rods, PTI reported.
Singh was reportedly found guilty of involvement in several bomb attacks in Pakistan’s Punjab province in 1990 and received the death penalty. However, Singh’s family in India claimed he was a victim of mistaken identity and had inadvertently strayed across the border.
His sister Dalbir Kaur fought a long battle to secure his release from the neighboring nation, but failed.
Sarabjit Singh’s daughter Swapandeep Kaur has reacted to the news of her father’s killer being shot dead by “unknown” men in Pakistan.
“At first I felt satisfied, but then I thought it was not justice. We wanted a trial to find out why my father was killed,” Kaur told India Today television.
She said the Pakistani government was behind the murder of Amir Sarfaraz Tamba – the man who killed her father Sarabjit.
