Four-year-old shoots sister, aged 2, in Las Vegas

Las Vegas, July 25: A two-year-old girl was in critical condition on Saturday after being shot by her four-year old brother in Las Vegas, the newspaper Las Vegas Sun reported.

The boy was holding a 9 mm pistol he found lying about the house when it went off, the newspaper quoted a police spokesman as saying.

The children’s father was at home at the time, but told police he did not notice his son playing with the loaded gun.

On Monday, a five-year-old boy in Las Vegas shot himself in the head while playing with a gun he found in his father’s car. The child died hours later.

—Agencies