Gurdwara shooting: Austrian cops find more evidence

Making a headway in the case of the killing of a Sikh religious leader at a Vienna Gurdwara, Austrian police on Tuesday claimed to have found more evidence on the attack and recovered an arms cache from the home of an Indian man who was arrested after a shootout.

Amrit Singh, a 26-year-old security company staffer, fired at Wega and Cobra special forces officers who searched nine flats and houses during a coordinated raid on Monday, Vienna police spokesman Michael Takacs said.

The Austrian-Sikh man was 'immediately overpowered and taken into custody', Takacs said. Police recovered guns and knives and confiscated the suspect's car, a red Nissan Almera, media reports said adding, more evidence in the case had been found in the vehicle.

The officers were investigating the May 24 shootings at the Ravi Dass Gurdwara in Vienna-Rudolfsheim in which 57-year-old Sant Rama Anand, leader of Dera Sachkhand, was killed.

Hardeep Singh -- a suspect who was released from preventive detention on June 5 -- has been taken into custody again by cops, who said they had found more evidence linking the 33-year-old asylum seeker facing deportation, to the attack.

Six suspects were detained immediately after the attack. One of them, a suspected ringleader in the killing of Sant Rama Anand, is still in a coma in a Vienna hospital after he was shot in the head during the temple brawl.