Tribune News Service

Sonepat, February 7

Three more farmers died at the Tikri border on Sunday during the ongoing farmers’ protest against the three farm laws. A farmer from Singwal village in Jind district reportedly hanged himself.

Heart attack was suspected to be the reason behind the death of two farmers from Punjab.

Karambir (52) of Singwal village in Jind district reportedly ended his life by hanging himself from a tree near the Sector 9 bypass. He was a part of the protest since the last week of November.

One of them was BKU leader

• Karambir (52) of Jind’s Singwal village reportedly ended his life by hanging himself from a tree
• In the suicide note, he blamed the three farm laws and the Cente for taking the extreme step
• BKU leader Sukhjinder Singh (57) of Moga district and Lakha Singh of Sangrur district died of heart attack

Fellow farmers said they played cards till 11 pm last night, after which they went to bed. They said they found his body hanging from a tree in a park this morning.

The police reached the spot after getting information. The police recovered a suicide note from a pocket of the deceased, in which he blamed the three agricultural laws and the Centre.

The police handed over the body of the deceased to his kin after postmortem.

A large number of villagers and farmer activists attended his cremation. ‘Kisan ekta zindabad’ slogans reverberated as his body was being taken for cremation. The deceased is survived by his wife and three daughters.

Two farmers from Punjab also died at the Tikri border today. One of them was identified as Sukhjinder Singh (57) of Dhulkot Ransi village in Moga district. He was president of the Nihal Singhwala block of the BKU (Qadian).

He was part of the first group which reached the Tikri border on November 26 and had been putting up in a trolley near pillar number 75.

Another farmer, Lakha Singh of Kalondi village in Sangrur district, died today. He had arrived at the Tikri border on February 3 and had been putting up with a group of farmers near the Sector 9 bypass.

He went for a morning walk today and lay down after coming back. When other farmers called him for tea, he did not respond. They took him to the General Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.