CHANDIGARH, Apr 12 (Agencies): Four persons have been killed in a shooting incident at the Bathinda Military Station in Punjab early on Wednesday morning.
“A firing incident reported in the early hours of the morning around 4.35 am inside the Bathinda Military Station. Station Quick Reaction Teams were activated. Area was cordoned off and sealed,” a senior officer said.
Meanwhile, the Punjab Police have termed it as a ‘fratricidal incident’.
Punjab’s Additional Director General of Police, SPS Parmar said, “It is not a terrorist attack, it is not an attack from outside. It is a fratricidal incident”.
A search operation is in progress and a high alert has been sounded. Besides the Ministry of Defence and Army Headquarters, the police and sister agencies have also been intimated about the incident.
Bathinda is an important military installation and houses the headquarters of 10 Corps, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Jaipur-based South Western Command.
The station is also home to a large number of operational Army units and other static establishments.