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A Special Task Force (STF) jawan allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service weapon in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Thursday, a police official said.

Constable Ramaram Swami shot himself with his service rifle in the wee hours outside his barrack in Potali camp under Aranpur police station limits, the official told PTI.

After hearing the gunshot, his colleagues rushed to the spot and found him lying in a pool of blood.

The body was sent to a local hospital for postmortem, he said.

The exact reason which prompted him to take the extreme step was yet to be ascertained, the official said.