An army man died due to cardiac arrest in an army camp in Rajouri town on Tuesday while another solider committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle inside an Army camp in Jammu.
34-year old Romesh Chander of Kha Jamola village of Rajouri was posted in the army camp at Rajouri where he breathed his last on Tuesday. His body was shifted to district hospital where medico-legal formalities were conducted on Wednesday, an official said.
The body of the solider was later handed over to his family for last rites. The army paid rich tributes to the deceased in his native village during cremation.
Meanwhile, 30-year-old soldier Sepoy Sandeep Singh, a resident of Punjab, was on a guard duty at a post in a transit camp at Panama Chowk where he shot himself in the head on Tuesday, the official said.
His colleagues rushed to the scene on hearing the gunshot and found him dead on the spot, he said. The body was handed over to the Army for last rites after completion of the legal formalities, the official said. The motive behind Singh taking the extreme step is yet to be ascertained, he said.