Agartala: A security personnel on May 8 committed suicide after killing his wife and two children by his service weapon at home in Agartala, capital of Tripura state in northeastern India.
Manik Ghosh, 40, belonged to Tripura State Rifles.
The incident triggered serious tension in Subhasnagar area in southern locality of the city.
Police have deployed additional forces to restore normalcy and civil administration was requested to mobilize plain cloth security forces to regain the confidence of the people on armed personnel.
The shooting occurred just two days after a soldier of the Border Security Force committed suicide after shooting dead three colleagues in North Tripura.
In the latest incident, Ghosh went berserk and shot dead his wife Ratna, 34, in the kitchen and son Dipraj, 10, and daughter Ipsita Ghosh, 4, on the breakfast table, police said.
His father and younger brother narrowly escaped from his bullets.
According to report, Ghosh went to battalion headquarters at Gakulnagar in around 5:30 am and returned an hour later in civil dress.
He had joined the service as rifleman 16 years ago, but after an accident he was shifted to non-armed duty for past few years.
Police said the initial investigations revealed that the incident was the fall out of a marital squabble.
The tiff had compelled his father to separate the two in the same house.
Ghosh parked his motorbike in the gate and entered the kitchen with the SLR and shot his wife on head, said a next door neighbor.
He later shot two more bullets on his children’s heads from point blank range.
In the meantime, his younger brother and father came to prevent him.
Manik targeted the gun towards them and they laid flat against a wall.
Then, he shot himself in the head.
Police said fear gripped the locality and a few people ran away from their homes, while some others remained behind their doors.