A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy was taken to hospital after being shot by his four-year-old friend in an Indigenous community in Canada’s Manitoba province, police said yesterday.

The two children were at a home on Peguis First Nation, about 185km north of Winnipeg, Monday night “when they gained access to a firearm,” the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement.

“The four-year-old child discharged the firearm, which struck a six-year-old child,” who was rushed to hospital for serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

An adult male has been arrested and faces a charge of unlawful storage of firearms. Five guns and a crossbow were also seized. – AFP, March 3, 2023.