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Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir carry out overnight raids, Centre sends additional troops.Reuters

An Indian Army soldier shot himself on Saturday in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, police sources said.

Battini Tirupati Rao of the engineering regiment shot himself with his service rifle inside a camp in Pattan area, the sources added.

He was shifted by his colleagues to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival.