The body of an 18-year-old boy with a bullet wound was found in a park near Jammu on Tuesday, police said.
The teenager had been missing for the past couple of days, and it appears that he committed suicide, they said, adding a pistol was recovered from the park in the Digiana area of Gandhi Nagar.
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The boy had the bullet injury on the right side of his head. Preliminary investigation suggests he shot himself with a pistol belonging to his father, the police said.
The motive is being ascertained, and the police are probing whether the weapon was licensed or not, they said.