'Catastrophic systemic failure' led to death of soldier in live-fire exercise

Private Jason Challis was accidentally shot in the head in an urban warfare exercise in the Northern Territory

The death of an inexperienced 25-year-old soldier during a live-fire training exercise occurred because of a "catastrophic systemic failure" by Australian army commanders, a coroner has found.

Private Jason Challis, 25, from Geelong, was accidentally shot in the head while crouching behind a building in an urban warfare exercise south of Darwin on 10 May 2017.