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AAP leader Gurpreet Gopi shot dead in Punjab’s Ferozepur

The four car-borne assailants got down from their vehicle in the main bazaar of Mamdot in Ferozepur on Saturday (August 29) evening and opened fire towards the car in which the 45-year-old Singh was travelling

AAP leader Gurpreet Singh, also known as Gurpreet Gopi, was shot and killed by four armed men in Ferozepur, Punjab, on Saturday evening, August 29, 2026. The assailants, arriving in a vehicle, approached the car Singh was traveling in with another individual, Harpreet alias Happy, 22, in the main bazaar of Mamdot. Upon exiting their vehicle, the four gunmen opened fire on the vehicle, resulting in Singh's death at the Civil Hospital and Harpreet being transferred to a private hospital in Ludhiana for treatment.

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