Man 'Suspected of Endangering Life of Minor' After Boy Shot Himself in Budapest

  • 8 Feb 2023 9:50 AM
  • Hungary Around the Clock
Man 'Suspected of Endangering Life of Minor' After Boy Shot Himself in Budapest
A boy around ten years of age was taken to hospital after shooting himself in the head with his father’s air rifle, the tabloid Metropol reported.

The boy was playing in the garden of his 17th District home and his father was in the house when the accident occurred.

The father only learnt about what had happened when the boy entered the house, complained of feeling ill and began to vomit.

The father took him to his mother who called an ambulance.

His father said the boy is already feeling better but for safety’s sake he is kept in the hospital.

Budapest Police confirmed that officers had questioned a 48-year-old man as a suspect on suspicion of endangering the life of a minor.

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