Punjab: National level shooter Namanveer Brar commits suicide by shooting himself

Mohali: The 28-year-old national level shooter Namanveer Singh Brar allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself at his residence in Sector 71 here, the police said.

According to the police, the incident took place in the wee hours of Monday when Brar was alone in his room. He was rushed to a local private hospital by the family members, but the doctors declared him brought dead.

The police is investigating the exact cause of the suicide. The post-mortem was conducted at civil hospital in Phase VI.

Brar had bagged the bronze along with Ankur Mittal and Asgar Hussein Khan in the double trap team event at the World University games at Gwangju, South Korea, in 2015.

He had won a bronze medal in the All India University Shooting Championship in the same year and in 2016, Brar was once again part of the Indian team winning the bronze medal in the FISU World University Shooting Championship held in Poland.

Brar had competed and finished fourth in the Minimum Qualification Score category in the trap event in the ISSF Delhi World Cup held in March this year.

Dr Prabhsukhman Brar, elder brother of Namanveer Singh Brar, is also a trap shooter, while his father is a businessman and mother Harpreet Brar a housewife. The family had shifted from Faridkot to Mohali in 2009. (UNI)