21-year-old shoots self at base after learning of friend's death.
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Two IDF soldiers from Daliat el-Carmel committed suicide, one after the other, on Friday morning.The first soldier, Ashraf Meriyah, was found in his home with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head just after dawn.When his friend, Louis Nasser a-Din, in his Haifa area army base, foundout about Meriyah’s death, he, too, shot himself in the head.Meriyah was 18 years’ old, while Nasser a-Din was 21 and was near completion of his military service.The Military Police launched an investigation.