Trooper shoots five colleagues, kills self in Kashmir

Srinagar: A trooper shot dead five of his colleagues and then turned the gun on himself in north's Kashmir Ganderbal district, sources said Thursday. Police sources told IANS that an angry trooper of the Rashtriya Rifles went berserk inside the Safapora (Manasbal) camp in the district, 35 kilometres from here, following a heated argument with his colleagues. 'He resorted to indiscriminate firing resulting in the death of five Rashtriya Rifles troopers. 'After the firing, the irate trooper shot and killed himself,' police said.