This Article is From Oct 02, 2010

Kolkata: Girl dies after being hit by bullet fired by neighbour

Kolkata: A nine-year-old girl was killed on Friday evening when a bullet fired by a neighbour at her father missed the target and hit her at a village in South 24
Parganas district, police said.

The incident occurred at Barjola village in Mandir Bazar police station when Mashura Khatun went to fetch water from a public tap with her father Bashar Gayen.

A neighbour, Mushior Rahman Jamadar, then fired at Gayen but the bullet hit her in the back, killing the class III student on the spot, they said, adding Gayen's family had a long standing feud with the family of Jamadar.

Four persons, including three women, of the Jamadar family were arrested.

Mushior and his father Sural Haq Jamadar, however, fled after the incident. Efforts are on to trace them, police said.
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