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A shootout between the police and two suspected killers of singer Sidhu Moose Wala is going on in a village near Amritsar.

Punjab Police’s Anti-Gangster Task Force had been tailing the two men — gangsters Jagroop Singh Roopa and Manpreet Singh alias Mannu Kussa — when the encounter started at Bhakna village, around 20 kilometres from Amritsar.

Mannu Kussa is alleged to have fired the first shots at Moose Wala from an AK-47 rifle. He and Jagroop Roopa were among three of the suspected shooters who were on the run; of them, Deepak Mundi has not been traced yet.

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Police from Punjab, Delhi and Mumbai have arrested several men for the murder, which was directed allegedly by Canada-based Goldy Brar in coordination with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who was already in Delhi’s Tihar Jail. Interpol has since issued a Red Corner Notice to trace Goldy Brar in connection with two other cases.

Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu alias Sidhu Moose Wala, 28, who was a Congress leader besides being a singer-songwriter and rapper, was shot dead near his village, Moosa, in Punjab’s Mansa district on May 29.

Goldy Brar claimed responsibility for the murder through Facebook posts. He said it was revenge for the murder of an Akali leader Vicky Middukhera last year.

Three ambulances have reached the encounter site at present.