Live firing demonstration goes horribly wrong


KOTA KINABALU: He was an elite commando who would have begun serving as a United Nations peacekeeper in Lebanon in a few weeks’ time. Instead, in a live firing demonstration gone awry at an army camp here, he was shot dead by a fellow soldier.

The tragic incident has raised questions about what went wrong.

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commando , Mejar Mohd Zahir Armaya

   

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