{"id":885946,"date":"2026-09-09T17:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885946\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:58:23","slug":"ammy-virks-father-says-shots-were-not-fired-at-singers-vehicle-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885946\/","title":{"rendered":"Ammy Virk\u2019s father says shots were not fired at singer\u2019s vehicle in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/punjab\/punjabi-singer-ammy-virk-has-narrow-escape-as-shots-fired-at-his-convoy-in-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Punjabi singer and actor Ammy Virk\u2019<\/a>s family is worried after reports of gunfire involving a vehicle linked to his concert convoy in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Virk\u2019s father, Kuljit Singh, said he learnt about the incident on Wednesday morning and had been trying to contact his son, but had not spoken to him yet.<\/p>\n<p>However, Singh said Ammy\u2019s brother Bhagwant speaks to the singer daily and had informed him that the shooting was not directed at Ammy Virk\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>According to Singh, the attack was instead related to the party that had organised the singer\u2019s show.<\/p>\n<p>Kuljit Singh, sarpanch of Lohar Majra village in Nabha, said the incident was reportedly from Sunday and confirmed that Ammy Virk was safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has no enmity with anyone,\u201d Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, reports from Canada said a vehicle travelling in the 2500-block of McCallum Road in Abbotsford, British Columbia, was fired upon by occupants of a dark-coloured SUV shortly after 11 pm on September 5.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Police later found an SUV believed to be linked to the incident fully engulfed in flames in the 2400-block of Sunnyside Place.<\/p>\n<p>The Abbotsford Police Major Crime Unit is investigating the shooting and examining whether the vehicle fire was connected to the incident. Police have said early indications suggested the attack was targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Ammy Virk had performed at the Rogers Forum earlier that day.<\/p>\n<p>(with inputs from Mohit Singla, Nabha)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Punjabi singer and actor Ammy Virk\u2019s family is worried after reports of gunfire involving a vehicle linked to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-885946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}