KL Report
SRINAGAR
In a fratricidal incident, an army man of 13 RR shot dead five of his colleagues and then turned the gun on himself in Mansbal area of north’s Kashmir Ganderbal district.
Officials said that the incident took place during the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday.
They added that an inquiry into the incident has been ordered.
Sources said that an angry trooper of the Rashtriya Rifles went berserk inside the Safapora (Manasbal) camp following a heated argument with his colleagues.
They added that he resorted to indiscriminate firing resulting in the death of five army men and injury to one.
“After firing on his colleagues, the irate trooper shot and killed himself,” police sources said.
Defense spokesman in Srinagar Lt Col NN Joshi has said that a court of inquiry has been ordered into the incident.
Incidents of fratricidal firing have been occurring in forces deployed in Jammu and Kashmir during the last 24 years.
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