Man injured as gun goes off ‘accidentally’ in Kathua

Jammu, Nov 8 (PTI) A 40-year-old man was injured after his country-made gun “accidentally” went off in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, a police official said on Wednesday.

The man identified as Gori Shanker suffered bullet injury from his own licensed gun inside his house in Sitti-Bani village on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, he added.

The official said Shanker, who suffered an injury to his chest, was taken to a hospital and later referred to the Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital in Jammu for specialised treatment on Wednesday morning.

The police have begun an investigation into the incident, he added.