Airman shoots self: In a shocking incident, a young airman shot himself dead with his service rifle on duty at the Memaura Air Force station in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow. According to officials, the deceased has been identified as 22-year-old Vignesh Sunder who was a resident of Madurai in Tamil Nadu.
This comes two days after a young officer was found dead in her official quarter room at Sarsawa Air Force base in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district.
Flying Officer Ahul Soman said Sunder was deployed at the gate of 505 Signal Unit Room. He had joined the Memaura Air Force Station two years back.
Body sent for autopsy
The police said Sunder trained the rifle at his forehead and shot himself. Hearing the gunshot, his colleagues rushed to the scene and found Vignesh in a pool of blood.
SHO Ashish Mishra said that a police team inspected the scene and sent the body for post-mortem. The police also took the rifle in its custody. "We have informed the family of the victim airman who lives in Madurai," said Mishra.
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Earlier on March 28, Flight Lieutenant Sanjeevni Sharma was found dead at Sarsawa Air Force base in Saharanpur. The SHO of Sarsawa police station, Sube Singh, said it appears that an overdose of medicines led to the death of the officer as she used to have fits. The deceased Flight Lieutenant's husband is also a Squadron Leader in the Air Force and is currently posted in Rajasthan.
(With IANS inputs)
