A National Army soldier serving with the Joint Peacekeeping Forces was accidentally shot dead by a colleague of his, Info-Prim Neo has learned from the Prosecutor General's Office. The soldier went on sentry duty at about 5pm on March 20. He received an AK 74 gun and two shells with thirty 5.45 mm caliber bullets. At that hour, the soldier was in the guards' smoking room. He coupled the cartridge to the gun without need. Another soldier approached him and put a pen in the barrel of his gun. Forgetting that he coupled the cartridge, the soldier fired the gun and injured fatally his colleague in the head. The victim died on the way to the Central Military Hospital. The Chisinau Military Prosecutor's Office ordered opening an inquiry into this case. The soldier is under arrest. He faces five to the year behind bars.