Pakistan investigating the shooting death of a suspect in the 2013 killing of an accused Indian spy

FILE - Indian Sikhs shout slogans against Pakistan as they display photographs of Sarabjit Singh, center, a convicted Indian spy who was on Pakistan's death row, died from a head injury after two inmates attacked him with a brick in a Lahore jail, during a protest in Kolkata, India, Thursday, May 2, 2013. A Pakistani police official says an investigation has begun after a man suspected in a fatal attack on an imprisoned Indian national more than a decade ago was shot dead at his home in the eastern city of Lahore. (AP Photo/Bikas Das, File)

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LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) 鈥 Pakistani authorities are investigating the shooting death of a man who had been acquitted of killing accused Indian spy Sarabjit Singh in a Lahore prison in 2013, a police official said Sunday.

India鈥檚 intelligence agency of being involved in killings inside Pakistan, saying it had credible evidence linking two Indian agents to the deaths of two Pakistanis last year.

The man who died in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday was Amir Tamba. He was a suspect in the death of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national who was convicted of spying in Pakistan and handed a death sentence in 1991.

But Singh died in 2013 after inmates attacked him in a Lahore prison. His fate inflamed tensions between the two South Asian nuclear-armed rivals.

Tamba and a second man went on trial for Singh鈥檚 death but were acquitted in 2018 due to lack of evidence.

The deputy inspector general of police in Lahore, Ali Nasir Rizvi, said gunmen entered Tamba鈥檚 house and shot him. They fled the scene on a motorbike. Officials from Pakistan鈥檚 army and intelligence agency reached the site and removed Tamba鈥檚 body, taking it to the city's Combined Military Hospital.

Rizvi said a case had been lodged against unidentified assailants but gave no further information about the case, including a possible motive for the attack.

There was slow coverage of Tamba鈥檚 death in Pakistan's media. However, Indian outlets were quick to report on the shooting. There was no immediate comment from the Indian authorities.

Singh was arrested in 1990 for his role in a series of bombings in Lahore and Faisalabad that killed 14 people. His family said he was innocent.

Last year, both the and accused Indian agents of links to on their soil. India dismissed the allegation of its involvement in the killing in Canada as 鈥渁bsurd."

In the case involving the U.S., India鈥檚 foreign ministry said it had to investigate the accusations, adding that the alleged link to an Indian official was 鈥渁 matter of concern鈥 and 鈥渁gainst government policy.鈥

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This story has been updated to correct that Tamba's killing occurred Sunday, not Saturday.

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