US Ambassador to Canada David Cohen has said that there was “shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners” that had prompted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation about Indian agents’ involvement in the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil.

There was “shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners” that informed Trudeau’s public allegation of a “potential” link between the government of India and the murder of a Canadian citizen, CTV News Channel, Canada’s 24-hour all-news network, reported quoting Cohen.

‘Five Eyes’ network is an intelligence alliance consisting of the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. It is both surveillance-based and signals intelligence (SIGINT).

CTV quoted Cohen as saying that he confirmed: “here was shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners that helped lead Canada to make the statements that the Prime Minister made.” “In the days since, as diplomatic tensions continue to ratchet up — from Canada reassessing its staffing in India, to India suspending visa services for Canadians — there have been swirling questions about what intelligence is at the centre of this story, who was aware of it, and when,” the CTV report said.

It further said that Cohen said, “there was shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners that helped lead Canada to making the statements that the Prime Minister made.”

“There was a lot of communication between Canada and the United States about this, and I think that’s as far as I’m comfortable going,” Cohen added.

Trudeau had on September 18 made an explosive allegation of the “potential” involvement of Indian agents in the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey on June 18.

India has rejected Trudeau’s allegations as absurd and motivated.