Soldier kills 5 colleagues in Indian Kashmir

A soldier armed with two automatic weapons shot dead five of his colleagues as they slept early Thursday before killing himself in restive Indian Kashmir, police and the army said. The soldier, who was on night duty, walked into the barracks where the soldiers were resting and opened fire at a military camp 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the region's main city of Srinagar. "The soldier ran amok, killing five others before shooting himself dead in the camp in Ganderbal district," army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Narinder Nahar Joshi told AFP. Another soldier who was injured in the attack recalled the events to police before being shifted to a military hospital in Srinagar for treatment, local superintendent of police Shahid Mehraj told AFP. A military inquiry and a separate police probe were under way to determine what sparked the incident at the camp in Safapora village, including whether the soldier was suffering from stress, according to AFP.