Soldier shoots dead five colleagues, self in Indian Kashmir

Srinagar (India) (AFP) - A soldier in Indian Kashmir shot dead five of his colleagues in a military camp on Thursday before turning the gun on himself, an army spokesman said.

The counter-insurgency soldier was on duty in the early hours when he started firing on his colleagues in the camp in Safapora village, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the region's main city of Srinagar.