PSNI seek gun used in shooting of boy (5)

Gun dealers have been questioned in a bid to find the owner of a rifle used in the accidental shooting of a schoolboy in Northern…

Gun dealers have been questioned in a bid to find the owner of a rifle used in the accidental shooting of a schoolboy in Northern Ireland.

Five-year-old Darragh Somers is critically ill on a life support machine after being hit in the back of the head with a bullet from .22 rifle last Friday.

Darragh was with up to 180 children in the school playground in Mullinaskea when he was shot.

St Patrick's Primary School, near Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, reopened today for the first time since the shooting.

Police have carried out ballistic tests on at least ten locally owned and legally held .22 rifles as part of their investigation.

Officers are also trying to recover similar calibre guns in circulation that have not been licensed.

Darragh is believed to have been hit by a stray bullet by someone out shooting vermin on neighbouring fields and high land. His parents say they are satisfied the shooting was accidental.

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