Hyderabad, October 20

A brawl at a birthday party cost the life of a 28-year-old Army jawan, who was “stabbed” to death at the party in Warangal district. The police said the incident took place on Saturday night and the jawan has been identified as H Prem Kumar.

According to the police, the incident took place at Narsampet town of the district. The injured jawan was rushed to a local hospital, but since his condition was serious, he died while being taken to Hyderabad.

The police said, “As per available information, the jawan had come down on a vacation a couple of days ago and attended birthday celebrations of his friend on Saturday night where an altercation took place after some of his friends got drunk and one person who attended the birthday party stabbed him”.

Sources said Prem Kumar was serving in Kashmir and had come home on leave three days ago. — TNS