ZAGREB, Dec 16 (Hina) - The suicide which occurred in a Zagreb barracks on Monday is the seventh among Croatian soldiers in the last year, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.
ZAGREB, Dec 16 (Hina) - The suicide which occurred in a Zagreb
barracks on Monday is the seventh among Croatian soldiers in the
last year, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. #L#
A member of the Second Guard Brigade, whose age has not been
revealed, killed himself while on guard duty at the Croatia
barracks at 0230 hours on Monday by shooting himself in the head
with an automatic rifle.
The Defence Ministry said that two conscripts and five professional
soldiers had killed themselves in the last 12 months, but stressed
that the number of suicides had dropped considerably since 1998.
"The number of suicides is four to five times lower than five years
ago. This is positive headway," Colonel Zoran Komar told Hina.
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