Boy 9 kills sister 4 with a gun

A usual siblings’ play at Asuoyeboah, a suburb of Kumasi, turned bloody yesterday afternoon, when the brother shot his younger sister dead.

A four-year-old girl was allegedly shot in the forehead by his nine-year-old brother in a room around 2pm when the siblings were playing together.

A police source told DAILY GUIDE on condition of anonymity that the little girl died as soon as she was shot.

Reports emerging as at press time yesterday indicated that the two siblings were playing with a pistol belonging to a resident of their house when disaster struck.

The police source said residents of the house heard a deafening noise of a gunshot so they rushed to the room to verify, only to find the girl in a pool of blood with her visibly-shaken brother standing by her side, panting and not knowing what to do.

The young girl was immediately rushed to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.

The whereabouts of the boy are not known.

The owner of the gun was also yet to be found as at press time yesterday.

The source noted that no arrest had been made as at press time as the police were still thoroughly investigating the matter.