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Armed forces personnel shoots self in Srinagar, 2nd incident in week

Srinagar: An armed forces personnel ended his life by shooting himself with his service rifle in Mehjoor Nagar area of Srinagar city on Thursday.

Quoting official sources, a report by news agency KNO said that personnel of Central Reserve Police Force posted at 25 BN Mehjoor Nagar Srinagar took the extreme step this afternoon.

The deceased has been identified as PG Naid who had joined the service in 2017.

In this regard, officials said that an in-house inquiry has been ordered to find out the reason as to what forced him to take the extreme step.

Earlier on October 12, an armed forces personnel of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) identified as Amit Kumar of 37 Battalion shot himself with his service rifle and died on the spot inside a camp at Vilgam Handwara at around 2200 hours.

Similarly on October 6, Jagmeet Singh, son of Makhan Singh, a resident of Haryana service ID number 15514259, who was posted with the 24 RR Delta Company-D, ended his life with his own service rifle.

 

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