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Stray New Year's Bullet Seriously Wounds 3 Week-old Girl in Philippines
2 January 2009
Philippine Daily Inquirer
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna, Philippines — A three-week-old baby girl remains in critical condition after a stray bullet hit her in the back during New Year's celebration in Dasmariñas Cavite, police said Friday.
Inspector Raul Bolido of the Dasmariñas police said the mother, Joan Abara, was carrying her infant when a stray bullet from the back of their house in the village of Sto. Nino II hit the child at around 12 a.m. Thursday.
The three-week-old infant was taken... (GunPolicy.org)