Incident Date:
November 18, 1998
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Surrey, British Columbia Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Assassination
Weapon Type(s): Firearms (Unknown Gun Type)
Organization Type: Religious,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Journalists & Media(Newspaper Journalists/Staff/Facilities)
Canadian Target:
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 1 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "11/18/1998: Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Tara Singh Hayer in his home in Surrey, British Columbia. Hayer, the publisher of the Indo-Canadian Times, was openly critical of fundamentalist Sikhs. He had received death threats in the past and was paralyzed from a previous unsuccessful assassination attempt. No group claimed responsibility for the attack and the specific motive is unknown; however, Hayer's family members believed the attack was designed to intimidate voters in upcoming leadership elections for local Sikh temples."
References: 1) Janes DB
2) RCMP Chronology
3) Janes DB
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