After Being Reprimanded For Using Cell Phone On Duty, Soldier Shoots Major 5 Times With AK-47

An Indian soldier has shot and killed an officer who reprimanded him for using a cell phone on duty in a sensitive area, says the army, as reported by the Hindustan Times.

The service said the soldier was on his phone Tuesday in the Uri sector of Indian-administered Kashmir, close to the border with Pakistan.

The appear said Maj. Shikar Thapa of the 8th Rashtriya Rifles, a counter-insurgency unit deployed in the area, told the soldier he would be reported to his commanding...