Srinagar, Nov 8: A CRPF personnel on Monday shoot himself dead with his service rifle at a camp in Lethpora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, official sources said.

They said that the constable of the paramilitary force identified as Bupinder Singh of Bharatpur Rajasthan ended his life by shooting himself with his service rifle At 185 bataliion Camp Lethpora. He died on the spot, they said.

A police official said that the proceedings have been launched into the incident. It was not immediately known what made the constable take the extreme step. gns