JAMMU Three CRPF personnel were killed Wednesday after a colleague fired at them after an altercation at their camp in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said
The fratricide incident happened at around 10 pm when constable Ajit Kumar shot three of his colleagues from his service rifle at the 187th battalion camp of the force in the Battal Ballian area in Udhampur, they said.
The officials said while three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) men were killed in the firing, Kumar also shot himself and is critical in a hospital.
Kumar hails from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh and was rushed to a military hospital nearby, they said.
The deceased have been identified as head constables Pokarmal R of Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan, Yogendra Sharma of Delhi and Umed Singh of Rewari in Haryana.
The incident is said to be triggered after the soldiers had an altercation, they said.
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