Four Army personnel from an artillery unit were killed in a shooting incident at the Bathinda military station in Punjab on Wednesday morning, according to state police. The incident occurred around 4:30 a.m., according to the Army, who deployed quick response teams and cordoned off the area.
“It has been ascertained that in the unfortunate incident, four army jawans of an artillery unit succumbed to gunshot injuries sustained during the incident. No other injuries to personnel or loss/damage to property have been reported,” the Army’s South Western command said in a statement.
“It is not a terrorist attack, it is not an attack from outside. It is a fratricidal incident”, Punjab’s Additional Director General of Police, SPS Parmar said. “We are in touch with the Army authorities,” he further said.
Bathinda’s Senior Superintendent of Police, Gulneet Singh Khurana told the media in Bathinda, “It is not a terror incident. It is an internal issue, it appears to be fratricidal issue. Our investigation teams have reached inside (military station) with all forensic equipment and they are conducting investigations. In-depth investigations are going on”.
