Kolkata: A girl in West Bengal’s Hooghly district has accidentally shot and critically injured her mother while playing with a loaded pistol.
The woman had found the gun in a garden outside their house and given it to her daughter, thinking it was a toy, police said.
According to police, Kakoli Jana, a resident of Khanakul in Arambag, found the pistol on June 17 morning.
As the girl was playing with it, she fired it accidentally, shooting her mother in the back, a police officer said.
“The injured woman was rushed to Arambag Hospital. Her condition is critical,” he said.
The girl has been detained for questioning.
“The girl said the pistol suddenly went off and the bullet hit her mother sitting in the room. She is in a state of shock,” the officer said.
Police said they are investigating how the pistol came to be in the garden.
(tribuneindia)