Sources said the Indian embassy is conducting an internal inquiry. (Representative)
Kathmandu:
Indian embassy sources said on Monday that a 32-year-old Indian national, working as a security guard at the Indian embassy here in Nepal, committed suicide by shooting himself inside the premises.
Indian Embassy sources here confirmed the incident without giving any details.
According to embassy sources, the security guard – identified as Deepak Singh – allegedly shot himself with his rifle at around 9 am inside the embassy premises.
According to the police, the body has been sent to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital Maharajganj for postmortem. The reason behind the move is not yet known.
The security guard was a resident of Uttarakhand.
“He was on duty when the incident happened,” the Kathmandu Post newspaper quoted an embassy official as saying.
The report said that a team of Nepal Police visited the Indian embassy after informing the Nepalese law enforcement agency about the incident.
MyRepublica newspaper reported that sources said the Indian embassy was conducting an internal investigation into the incident as it took place on its premises.
In January 2005, two security guards were killed and another injured in “accidental firing” at the Indian Embassy premises.
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