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International Desk : Four soldiers have been killed in firing at a military base in the Indian border state of Punjab early on Wednesday.
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An unknown number of shooters were at large at the base in Bathinda city, a defence source told Reuters.
An army statement said that four soldiers succumbed to gunshot injuries sustained during the firing incident, which took place in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The statement did not mention the circumstances or other details about who was responsible for the incident.
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The incident was "not a terror attack", and took place in a canteen, a senior police official in Punjab, S.P.S. Parmar told Reuters.
The military base, about 280 km (175 miles) northwest of New Delhi, houses mostly families of soldiers. The border with Pakistan is about 100 km (62 miles) west of Bathinda.
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