Child accidentally kills one-year-old sister

A Saudi child killed his one-year-old sister while he was playing with his father’s hunting rifle, 'Sharq' newspaper reported on Saturday.

The child, 5, found his father’s gun and started fiddling with it, not knowing it was loaded, the Arabic language daily said in a report from the central town of Madinah.

“He pulled the trigger and the shot hit his sister who was very close to him….she died instantly,” it said.

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