A 13‑year‑old girl in the US state of Mississippi has died after being shot by her 9‑year‑old brother over a fight about video games.
The siblings had been in a bedroom playing a video game while adults were elsewhere in the home.
At some point, the boy wanted the video game controller from his sister but she wouldn't give it to him.
The little boy managed to get a gun out of a nightstand and he just went over and shot her.
Firearms‑related injuries are America's third leading cause of death for children aged 1 to 17, according to a 2017 report in the medical journal Pediatrics.
An average of 1297 children died each year from 2012 to 2014 from a firearm‑related injury.
Analysing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, The Washington Post's editorial board found that "on average, 23 children were shot each day in the United States in 2015.
Of the approximately 8400 shootings, 1458 were fatal, a death toll that exceeds the entire number of US military fatalities in Afghanistan this decade.
Source: The Washington Post
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