2 Nepali guards shot dead after quarrel at Indian mission

AFP, Kathmandu
An angry Indian security guard shot dead two colleagues and wounded a third at India's embassy in Nepal yesterday following a row, police and the Indian embassy said.

The pre-dawn shootings in the guards' living quarters of the embassy compound in the Nepal capital, Kathmandu, followed "a hot exchange of words between the Indian security guards", a police official told AFP.

The embassy said in a statement the shootings were "an internal affair with no outside involvement".