5 Army Personnel Including Injured After Colleague Opens Fire, Exploded Grenades Inside Camp

New Delhi: An officer of major rank allegedly shot and detonated grenades at his fellow army personnel, injuring five of them, including three officers, inside a camp in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Thursday, news agency PTI uoted officials as saying.

PTI sources said that the officer attacked his co-workers without any reason during a shooting drill and then barricaded himself in the unit’s armoury and threw grenades at his seniors who tried to convince him to give up. The standoff lasted for almost eight hours before the officer was subdued in the armoury. The incident occurred at the Neeli post near Thanamandi in the district.

The army cleared a nearby village as a safety measure, they said. The army, however, said that an officer was hurt in a probable grenade mishap at a post in Rajouri. “The White Knight Corps of the army posted on X that one officer was hurt in a probable grenade mishap at a post in Rajouri sector on 05 Oct 23. Officer evacuated and stable post initial treatment. Further investigation of the incident in progress.”