Boy shot with air rifle
9:58am Sunday 18th May 2008
POLICE are continuing investigations into how a 12 year-old boy was shot with an air rifle.
The boy, from Ottery St Mary, had to be taken to hospital after being shot in the chest on Thursday.
He had been playing with the air rifle with a friend in a field when one of them accidentally discharged the weapon.
The injured boy was taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital and kept in overnight.
Police have confirmed that the shooting was an accident and are carrying out enquiries into how the boys acquired the rifle.
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