OTTAWA, Canada – A six-year-old boy was despatched to hospital after being shot by his four-year-old good friend in an Indigenous neighborhood in Canada’s Manitoba province, police mentioned Thursday.
The two kids had been at a house on Peguis First Nation, about 185 kilometers (115 miles) north of Winnipeg, Monday night time “when they gained access to a firearm,” the Royal Canadian Mounted Police mentioned in an announcement.
“The four-year-old child discharged the firearm, which struck a six-year-old child,” who was rushed to hospital for critical however non-life-threatening accidents, police mentioned.
An grownup male has been arrested and faces a cost of illegal storage of firearms. Five weapons and a crossbow had been additionally seized. — Agence France-Presse
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