Indian soldier kills three colleagues in Kashmir
Source: Reuters
(Updates with fresh violence paragraphs 7-8) SRINAGAR, India, Oct 21 (Reuters) - An Indian soldier shot dead three fellow soldiers at a security camp in Kashmir after an argument before attempting to kill himself, an army spokesman said on Saturday. The shooting, the latest in a string of such incidents in the strife-torn region, took place on Friday night in Rajouri district, southwest of Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital. "The jawan (soldier) used his service rifle and killed three of his colleagues. He later shot himself, and was admitted to hospital," Colonel D.K. Badola, an army spokesman, told Reuters. Two other soldiers were wounded. Stress levels are high among the hundreds of thousands of Indian police and soldiers serving in Kashmir, where daily violence continues despite a peace process between India and Pakistan. A rebellion against Indian rule that erupted in 1989 in the divided region has killed more than 45,000 people. Separately, the Indian army said its soldiers shot dead five suspected Muslim militants as they tried to cross into Indian Kashmir from Pakistan. A further two militants, including a senior member of frontline rebel group, Hizbul Mujahideen, were killed in a gunbattle in south Kashmir.
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