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| Indian army trooper kills 5 colleagues, self in Indian-controlled Kashmir |
| 2014-02-28 |
| [Xinhua] An Indian army trooper killed five of his colleagues before shooting himself dead Thursday inside a camp in restive Indian-controlled Kashmire, officials said. The killing took place early Thursday at a camp at Safapoora village of Bandipora district, about 35 km north of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmire. "Early today an army trooper ran amok inside the camp and fired indiscriminately killing five of his colleagues on the spot and later on shot himself dead," Lt Col N N Joshi, Indian army front man in Srinagar told Xinhua. "We are trying to get the details behind this incident and will share them soon." A trooper is also believed to have been maimed in the melee, sources said. Indian army has ordered an investigation into the incident. Indian troops stationed in Indian-controlled Kashmire, battling armed insurgency are reported to be under a lot of stress and strain. Last year four incidents of fratricide among Indian troops were reported across the region. Indian-controlled Kashmire is considered as the highest militarized region. Officially India does not reveal the actual number of its troops deployed in the troubled region. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... rights activists say there are over 700,000 Indian troops and paramilitary troops in the region fighting an anti-India insurgency that broke out in 1989. During the past more than two decades, several incidents of suicide and fratricide among the stationed troops were reported. Health experts say continued separation from family, long duty hours, lack of recreational facilities, poor command and control structure were usually found to be behind such incidents. |
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