Ten-year-old boy shoots girl dead
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A ten-year-old boy fatally shot a sixteen-year-old girl in what reports describe as a shooting directed by his mother. She reportedly told the child to retrieve the gun; the result is a tragedy that even a continent accustomed to grim news finds difficult to parse.
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