IMPHAL, May 5: A BSF jawan reportedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle at the post of 13 Battalion, BSF at Mantripukhri under Heingang police station, Imphal East in the early hours of Saturday.
The incident occurred around 5:15 am when Constable Praveen Kumar, 43, a native of Bandera village, Samastipur district of Bihar, shot himself in the jaw with an INSAS rifle issued to him inside the barrack. He was found lying in a pool of blood on his bed.
Praveen, a jawan of A Coy, 13 BSF Battalion, reportedly committed suicide after returning from sentry duty at High Court Complex, Chingmeirong.
In an unrelated incident, a team of 30 Assam Rifles on a routine patrol recovered a powerful roadside bomb at Mantripukhri Bazaar today.
The AR patrolling team found the bomb close to a Community Hall around 7 am, police sources said, adding that the AR personnel removed the bomb safely.
