Srinagar, Sep 17 (IANS) An irate army man shot dead two of his colleagues and wounded two others after an altercation in a camp near the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir, officials said Sunday.
The solider had a heated exchange with his colleagues in the Mule unit camp in Dildar village of Kupwara district Saturday night.
"The incensed soldier took his service rifle and sprayed bullets killing two soldiers on the spot. Two others, who were seriously wounded in the shooting, were airlifted to the Srinagar army base hospital for treatment," said a senior police officer.
He said the infuriated soldier was soon overpowered by his colleagues and taken into custody.
Last week an army major was gunned down by a soldier inside the Rashtriya Rifles (RR) camp in Rajouri town of Jammu region.
The increasing incidents of this kind are attributed to the pressures of the security duty in a highly hostile environment.
Authorities have taken help of counsellors to ease the tension among the soldiers deployed on counter-insurgency duties in the Kashmir valley.
Meanwhile, six separatist guerrillas were killed in three separate encounters across the valley since Saturday, according to police.