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Accidental gunfire claims boy's life in Jammu

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Press Trust of India Jammu
A seven-year-old boy was killed allegedly when a gun he was fiddling with accidentally went off in his house in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district, police said today.

Vansh Gupta was fiddling with the licensed gun at his Chenani residence last evening, when a single shot from the weapon pierced his chest, causing death, a police official said.

Investigations have been initiated, he added.

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First Published: Oct 22 2017 | 2:32 PM IST

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