A pregnant woman and her unborn child died last week in the US state of Ohio after her two-year-old son shot her at the back with a handgun left loaded in the house.
Police Chief, David Smith told local media on Tuesday that 31-year-old Laura Ilg had called 911 on the afternoon of June 16.
”She explained that she was 33 weeks pregnant and her two-year-old had accidentally just shot her in the back with a firearm,” Smith said to local ABC affiliate News 5 Cleveland.
Police on Friday arrived quickly at the home in Norwalk, Ohio, and rushed Ilg to hospital, but her unborn baby could not be saved after an emergency c-section while Ilg died from her injuries hours later. The accidental shooting is the latest in a long line of such incidents in the United States, a country of around 330 million people and some 400 million guns.
