Soldier shoots two colleagues dead, kills himself in Siberia

A Russian serviceman in southeast Siberia shot dead two of his colleagues before turning his automatic weapon on himself, a police official said on Tuesday.

The incident happened on Sunday in the village of Srednyaya in the Baikal area.

"The local military prosecutor is carrying out an investigation," the source said.

The prosecutor`s office declined to comment on the information.

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