A 68-year-old Indian-origin businessman was shot dead in his car in what appeared to be a targeted shooting, outside his home in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on Monday morning, prompting a homicide investigation and brief lockdowns at nearby schools, the Canadian authorities said.

Darshan Singh Sahsi, who was originally from Ludhiana, was the president of Canam International, which his son Arpan described as one of the world's largest clothing recyclers, CBC news reported.

On Monday morning, Abbotsford Police Patrol officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 31300 block of Ridgeview Drive.

"Upon arrival, officers secured the area and confirmed the incident was confined to a single parked vehicle on the roadway. Inside the vehicle, they discovered a 68-year-old man suffering fr

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