3-year-old dies after cousin accidentally fires gun while playing in Karnataka’s Mandya

A 13-year-old boy accidentally killed his three-year-old cousin while playing with a loaded gun at a poultry farm in Karnataka’s Mandya district Sunday.

According to the police in Nagamangala, the deceased was the son of migrant labourers from West Bengal employed at a poultry farm owned by Congress leader Narasimhamurthy. The 13-year-old was visiting the family with his parents, who work on a neighbouring farm.

An officer said the children were playing thief-police when the elder cousin found a loaded gun kept on a shelf for security purposes. He accidentally fired the weapon, striking his younger brother in the abdomen. The bullet caused severe injuries to the younger boy, also wounding his mother.