SLAIN Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala bore 19 bullet injury marks and would have died within 15 minutes, said his autopsy report.

Moosewala was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Punjab’s Mansa district on Sunday, a day after the state Government pruned his security cover.

The assailants had sprayed bullets on 28-year-old Moosewala in Jawahar Ke village after waylaying his vehicle. At least three weapons were used and thirty empty cases were found from the site.

A panel of five doctors had conducted the post-mortem examination of Moosewala.

The autopsy report said the singer probably died “within 15 minutes” of receiving the injury.

The cause of death was “hemorrhagic shock which is due to ante mortem fire arm injuries described and sufficient to cause death in ordinary course of nature”, the report said. Moosewala’s body bore maximum bullet injury marks on his right side. An X-ray of the whole body was also conducted to detect projectiles, it said.