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A 13-year-old pupil, Yaw Amankwaa of Kyereyaaso, D/A Primary School near Nyinahin in the Ashanti region on Sunday accidentally shot to death 54-year-old Ms Felicia Gyemaa, a teacher in the school.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency on Monday at Nyinahin Mr. Samuel Alordey, Superintendent of Police in-charge of Nyinahin District, said on June 22, Amankwaa, while sweeping his father, Mr Maxwell Asare's room, saw a single barrelled gun.
The boy loaded the gun with a cartridge and as he played with it, it went off hitting Gyemaa who was standing some distance away in the courtyard.
The pellets hit her in the head and she died on the spot. A second victim, Nancy Owusu, who was standing close to Gyemaa, was also hit in the throat and was taken to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).
The boy and his father are in police custody.
Source: GNA
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