GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

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Another child has been killed because of a gun left out :(

A three-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his nine-year-old sister in an Alabama home on Saturday.

Police said the girl was shot in the head.

She was flown by a medical helicopter to Children's of Alabama hospital, where she later died.

Irondale police chief Ken Atkinson told AL.com that the shooting took place Saturday afternoon at the grandparents' house in a Birmingham suburb.

He said the boy found a loaded pistol on a bedroom nightstand and shot his sister in the head with it.

Atkinson said the incident seems to be a 'tragic accident' but an investigation is under way.

He said detectives are interviewing the children's uncle and grandmother who were home at the time of the shooting to learn exactly what happened.

The grandfather had left the loaded gun on the nightstand not knowing his grandchildren were coming over that day.

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