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Jawan kills five colleagues, self in Kashmir
 Tribune News Service

Manasbal (Ganderbal), Feb 27
An Army jawan shot dead five of his colleagues while they were sleeping early Thursday morning before committing suicide at the battalion headquarters of 13 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) in central Kashmir's Ganderbal district.

The Army has ordered a high level Court of Inquiry into the killings, Srinagar-based defence spokeperson Lt Col NN Joshi said.

A police officer told IANS that the angry soldier went berserk inside the Safapora (Manasbal) camp, some 35 km from Srinagar, on the banks of the serene Manasbal Lake, following a heated exchange of words with his colleagues.

This is the first major incident of fratricide in Kashmir in the last two years.

While the Army did not give more details, it is learnt sepoy Ranveer Singh was posted on sentry duty at the main gate of the Army camp. Around 2am, he walked to one of the guard room barracks where some jawans were asleep. He took a jawan’s rifle and fired indiscriminately.

“Five jawans of 13 RR were killed in the indiscriminate firing and another was injured. After the firing, the soldier returned to his post and shot and killed himself with his own service rifle,” a source said. The slain soldiers are: Sepoy Amit Kumar, Lance Naik Tabruq Ansari, Sepoy Surinder Singh, Rifle Man Rajput Joni and Sepoy Mahetre Rahul.

A bloody decade

2005: 44 cases of suicide, 10 of fratricide reported among Armymen

March 2006: Soldier kills four colleagues in Miran Sahib, Jammu, before killing himself following an argument

Oct 2006: Soldier kills two colleagues in Rajouri, commits suicide; jawan kills officer in Srinagar’s Harwan camp

Nov 2007: Soldier kills two senior colleagues in Doda

2008: 34 cases of suicide, one of fratricide reported

May 2013: Sashastra Seema Bal soldier kills two colleagues in Kishtwar

Oct 2013: Rashtriya Rifles JCO shot dead by subordinate in South Kashmir

Feb 2014: Jawan shoots five colleagues at a camp in Central Kashmir

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