Rome: Two Indian men lost their lives in a shooting in Italy’s Covo, Bergamo province, on Friday. The incident unfolded as the pair exited a warehouse serving as a Gurdwara amid a Baisakhi festival gathering, according to PTI citing local media reports.
La Sicilia newspaper reported that the attack took place shortly before midnight in the square facing the Gurdwara Mata Sahib Kaur Ji, located in the town’s industrial zone.
Authorities identified the victims as 48-year-old Raginder Singh of Covo and Gurmit Singh of Agnadello, both of Indian origin. Preliminary probes have dismissed the possibility of a spontaneous altercation escalating to violence. The report indicated the gunman approached the victims, f
ired shots, and escaped by car.
Investigators are pursuing leads on a “coldly planned execution,” with nearly ten shell casings found at the scene. An eyewitness described the shooter as “an Indian” who often visited the gurdwara. He recounted to reporters that bullets also grazed a third individual. The tragedy struck as local officials prepared for Saturday’s formal Baisakhi observance.
Naples Bank Heist
The shooting followed a brazen bank robbery a day earlier, where armed robbers held 25 people hostage in Italy for two hours, as reported by AFP. Masked gunmen fled through a tunnel carrying loot from safe deposit boxes.
A source close to the investigation said the robbers stormed a Crédit Agricole branch in Naples around 11:30 am (0930 GMT), taking customers and staff captive until their release two hours later.
However, officers failed to apprehend the robbers, who had vanished via a tunnel “into the sewers.” “The thieves took the contents of dozens of safe deposit boxes,” a police source told AFP, noting, “Nobody but the clients knows what was in those boxes” regarding the loot’s value.