Trooper kills family, commits suicide in Tripura

  • | Tuesday | 8th May, 2018

Family dispute is suspected to have led to the incident. AGARTALA: A security personnel on Tuesday gunned down his wife and two children before committing suicide at his home on the outskirts of the Tripura capital here, police said.Forty-year-old Naik Manik Ghosh gunned down his wife Ratna Ghosh, 29, and two children -- Jitraj , 11, and two-year-old Hritika -- with a service rifle of his colleague that he had stolen, a police officer said.Ghosh belonged to the first battalion of the Tripura State Rifles (TSR), an elite counter-insurgency force of the state police.

AGARTALA: A security personnel on Tuesday gunned down his wife and two children before committing suicide at his home on the outskirts of the Tripura capital here, police said.Forty-year-old Naik Manik Ghosh gunned down his wife Ratna Ghosh, 29, and two children -- Jitraj , 11, and two-year-old Hritika -- with a service rifle of his colleague that he had stolen, a police officer said.Ghosh belonged to the first battalion of the Tripura State Rifles (TSR), an elite counter-insurgency force of the state police. Family dispute is suspected to have led to the incident.

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