{"id":194033,"date":"2022-06-28T00:13:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=194033"},"modified":"2022-06-28T00:13:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:43:45","slug":"two-army-personnel-shot-dead-by-colleague-in-pathankot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/06\/28\/two-army-personnel-shot-dead-by-colleague-in-pathankot\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Army personnel shot dead by colleague in Pathankot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pathankot (Punjab), Jun 27 (PTI) An Army jawan allegedly shot dead two of his colleagues at Mirthal cantonment in Punjab&#8217;s Pathankot district on Monday, a police official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 22-year-old sepoy allegedly opened fire on two havildars from West Bengal and Maharashtra in the early hours of Monday, the police official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sepoy, who has been serving in the Army for four years, had fled from the scene leaving behind his service weapon, but was nabbed later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials are trying to ascertain what led to the firing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Naik-rank Army official, in a complaint filed with the police, said they heard gun shots when they were sleeping.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He, along with his colleagues, immediately informed their seniors about the incident and the injured were taken to a hospital in Pathankot where they were declared dead by doctors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A massive manhunt was launched by police and Army personnel and the accused was nabbed a few kilometers away from the cantonment, the police official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A case of murder under relevant sections of the IPC and the Arms Act has been registered, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathankot (Punjab), Jun 27 (PTI) An Army jawan allegedly shot dead two of his colleagues at Mirthal cantonment in Punjab&#8217;s Pathankot district on Monday, a police official said. The 22-year-old sepoy allegedly opened fire on two havildars from West Bengal and Maharashtra in the early hours of Monday, the police official said. The sepoy, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-194033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}