Security guard shoots himself dead at Indian Embassy in Kathmandu

KATHMANDU: A 32-year-old Indian national working as a security guard at India's Embassy here in Nepal shot himself dead inside the premises in an apparent suicide bid, sources at the mission said on Monday.

The Indian Embassy sources here confirmed the incident without giving any details.

According to embassy sources, the deceased - identified as Deepak Singh - allegedly shot himself with his rifle at around 9am within the embassy premises.

The body has been sent to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, for post-mortem, according to the police. The reason behind the suicide is not yet known.

The security guard hailed from Uttarakhand.

"He was on duty when the incident took place," The Kathmandu Post newspaper quoted an embassy official as saying.

A team of Nepal Police visited the Indian Embassy after it informed the Nepali law enforcement agency about the incident, the report said.

Sources said the Indian Embassy is conducting an internal investigation into the incident as it took place on its premises, My Republica newspaper reported.

In January 2005, two security guards were killed and another injured in an "accidental firing" on the Indian Embassy premises.