Amarpreet Singh Amri. File photo
Kulwinder Sandhu
Moga, January 16
Renowned kabaddi player Amarpreet Singh Amri died of cardiac arrest at Surrey in Canada on Monday.
He hailed from Patto Hira Singh village of Nihal Singh Wala sub-division of Moga district.
Twenty-eight-year-old Amri went to Canada to get married there in December last year.
Amri was a known kabaddi raider in the area. His sudden death weeks after his marriage has shocked the sports fraternity.
His family is yet to comment on whether his body would be brought to his native village for cremation.
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