40-year-old Sikh woman stabbed to death at her home in Canada

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Kaur’s
husband,
also
40,
was
arrested
as
a
suspect
at
the
scene
of
the
stabbing
but
has
since
been
released.

Ottawa,
Dec
11:
A
40-year-old
Sikh
woman
has
been
killed
at
her
home
in
Canada
and
her
husband
arrested
as
a
suspect,
according
to
Canadian
police.

Harpreet
Kaur
was
stabbed
multiple
times
at
her
home
in
Surrey,
British
Columbia
on
Wednesday
night
in
Surrey,
CBC
news
reported
on
Friday.

The
Royal
Canadian
Mounted
Police
(RCMP)
said
that
they
were
called
to
a
residence
in
the
Newton
area
shortly
before
9:30
pm
on
Wednesday
for
reports
of
a
stabbing.

When
the
officers
arrived,
they
found
a
woman
with
life-threatening
injuries
who
was
rushed
to
the
hospital
where
she
died
of
her
injuries,
the
report
said.

Sgt.
Timothy
Pierotti
of
the
Integrated
Homicide
Investigation
Team
(IHIT)
is
investigating
the
homicide
along
with
the
Surrey
RCMP
serious
crime
unit.

Kaur’s
husband,
also
40,
was
arrested
as
a
suspect
at
the
scene
of
the
stabbing
but
has
since
been
released,
the
report
said.

Police
have
appealed
to
anyone
who
has
information
about
Kaur
or
her
death
to
come
forward
and
help
investigators
gather
enough
information
to
secure
charges.

“Our
investigators
have
been
working
non-stop,”
Pierotti
said.

“These
incidents
have
a
significant
impact,
not
only
on
the
family
and
friends
of
the
victim
but
the
entire
community.
Surrey
RCMP’s
victim
services
have
been
engaged
and
are
available
to
anyone
in
need
of
assistance”,
he
was
quoted
as
saying.

The
incident
comes
just
days
after
21-year-old
Pawanpreet
Kaur,
another
Canadian-Sikh
woman,
was
shot
dead
outside
a
gas
station
in
Mississauga
on
December
3.

Last
month,
an
Indian-origin
teenager
Mehakpreet
Sethi
was
stabbed
to
death
by
another
teenager
in
a
high
school
parking
lot
in
Canada’s
British
Columbia
province.