Five year old boy fighting for life after being shot by his six year old...

Published: 1:01 pm June 1, 2019
Updated: 5:06 am October 8, 2025
Five Year Old Boy Fighting For Life After Being Shot By His  Six Year Old Brother In Enfield

Five year old boy fighting for life after being shot by his six year old brother in Enfield

A Boy, 5, fighting for life after being shot by sibling, 6 In a terrible accident, a young boy was shot with a pellet gun while playing with his sibling in the garden of a home in London Borough of Enfield, North London. The five-year-old suffered a serious injury to the chest during the incident just before 3.30pm yesterday (Friday, May 31) and was flown to the hospital in a life-threatening condition. Police say the boy was playing with his six-year-old sibling when the tragedy unfolded. The child, aged five, sustained an injury to his chest,” a Met Police spokesman said. It appears at this time, the child was playing with other young children in the garden when a pellet gun was loaded and discharged mistakenly by the five-year old’s sibling, aged six. London’s Air Ambulance was deployed and has flown the child to an East London hospital. As of this morning, the boy was still in a critical condition.

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