In a tragic incident, a five-year- old girl in the US has accidentally shot herself dead while playing with her father's handgun in Lousiana, media reports said today.
The girl, Haley Moore, was spending the weekend at her father's house with her elder sister and brother. Just before they were about to leave for a movie, she found her father's gun at the house and began playing with the firearm.
Her father told investigators that Moore was playing with the gun when she shot herself inside the home in Lousiana's LaPlace area yesterday, New York Daily News reported.
Authorities said the handgun had not been safely stored before the shooting occurred. Her father had left the .45-caliber gun on the table.