Altercation goes awry in J&K as CRPF jawan kills three colleagues

Three CRPF personnel were killed on March 20 after a colleague allegedly fired at them after an altercation at their camp in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.

The fratricide happened around 10 pm when constable Ajit Kumar shot three of his colleagues with 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. 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.