Las Vegas (United States): A two-year-old girl was in critical condition on Friday after being shot by her 4-year-old brother at their Las Vegas home, US police said.
"While the brother was holding the weapon it discharged, striking his sister's torso," police spokesman Bill Cassell said in a statement.
Police were investigating how the boy got the 9mm handgun. Cassell said their father was home when the shooting happened about 8:30 p.m. local time on Thursday. It was not immediately clear if the father would face any charges.
"At this time it appears the (boy) was able to gain access to the weapon because it was improperly secured," Cassell said.
The girl was hospitalised in critical condition, he said.
The shooting came less than a week after a five-year-old boy shot and killed himself with a handgun inside his father's vehicle outside a Las Vegas pharmacy. That father, 31-year-old Alex Kopystenski, has been charged with felony child endangerment.
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