{"id":547,"date":"2014-02-27T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/soldier-kills-5-colleagues-before-shooting-self-at-safapora-camp\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:02:00","slug":"soldier-kills-5-colleagues-before-shooting-self-at-safapora-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Soldier kills 5 colleagues before shooting self at Safapora camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b>Srinagar:<\/b> In a first incident of fratricidal killings this year, a soldier committed suicide after killing five of his colleagues and injuring another at an army camp in Ganderbal district of central Kashmir, officials told GNS&nbsp;Thursday.<\/div>\n<div>Sepoy Ranveer of 4 Kumaon posted with 13 Rashtriya Rifles at the Safapora camp in Mansbal went berserk in the wee hoursThursday&nbsp;after a heated argument with his colleagues, who came from different army units. \u201cThe heated exchange of words took an ugly turn when the Sepoy opened indiscriminate fire upon his colleagues killing five RR soldiers at the spot and injuring another. The soldier later shot himself dead,\u201d officials said.<\/div>\n<div>The slain soldiers have been identified as Amit Kumar of 12 Kumaon, Lance Naik Tabruq Ansari of 278 Field Regiment, Sepoy Surinder Singh of 2 Kumaon, Rifleman M R Ajinath of 36 Medical Regiment and Rifle Man Rajput Joni of 278 Field Regiment.<\/div>\n<div>Army spokesman Lt Col Nitin Nahar Joshi confirmed to GNS that the incident took place at Safapora Mansbal camp around&nbsp;3:00&nbsp;amThursday.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEven though the real cause of the incident was not immediately known, a high level inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the facts,\u201d he said, adding \u201cA colonel has been nominated to head the inquiry and submit its report,\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: In a first incident of fratricidal killings this year, a soldier committed suicide after killing five of his colleagues and injuring another at an army camp in Ganderbal district of central Kashmir, officials told GNS&nbsp;Thursday. Sepoy Ranveer of 4 Kumaon posted with 13 Rashtriya Rifles at the Safapora camp in Mansbal went berserk in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}