Porbandar: Two paramilitary jawans on election duty near Gujarat's Porbandar were killed and two more were injured on Saturday in clashes between themselves, said officials.
As per the initial inputs, an altercation broke out between IRB constables on the election duty bus during which a weapon was fired resulting in the death of two constables while two others were injured. The injured have been shifted to Porbandar's Bhavsinghji Hospital for treatment.
A police convoy and other personnel rushed to the hospital after being informed about the incident. The jawans belong to the Manipur battalion. They were sent here by the Election Commission ahead of the next month's Gujarat Assembly elections, said Porbandar Collector and District Election Officer, AM Sharma.
Voting in the Porbandar district will be held on December 1 in the first phase. The Jawans were staying inside a cyclone centre in Tukda Gosa village, about 25 km from Porbandar. "A jawan opened fire from his assault rifle on his colleagues over some unknown issue on Saturday evening. While two jawans died on the spot, two others were injured.
They were shifted to a hospital in Jamnagar. One of them received a bullet injury in his stomach and the other was hit on his leg," Sharma said, adding that further investigation will be carried out by the police.
