France: Father has to have his foot amputated after his four-year-old son accidentally blasts him with loaded hunting rifle

France: Father has to have his foot amputated after his four-year-old son accidentally blasts him with loaded hunting rifle

Father has to have his foot amputated after his four-year-old son accidentally blasts him with loaded hunting rifle | Daily Mail Online

09/39/2024

A father in France had to have his foot amputated after his four-year-old son accidentally fired a loaded hunting rifle at him.

Police sources say the accident occurred in Cournon d’Auvergne, a town in central France, on Sunday.

French news company AFP report that the young boy was in a car with his father during a hunting session when they stopped to talk with friends who were also out hunting.

The child fired one of the hunters’ rifles and injured his father in the foot, the police source said (file image)

Police sources say the accident occurred in Cournon d’Auvergne (pictured), a town in central France, on Sunday

But the police have already established that ‘not all safety rules were met’.

Dominique Busson, president of the local hunters’ association, said that the hunters should have unloaded their rifles before gathering, but failed to do so.

The boy was taken to a psychiatric ward for counselling, while a police investigation was opened in order to determine ‘how a four-year old child found himself handling a loaded hunting rifle’, the police source said.

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