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Yemeni Children Play with Guns, Kill Family, Flee Home in Fear of Lives
31 August 2010
IRIN (UN News)
DHAMAR, Yemen - Many Yemeni children who accidentally killed their loved ones while playing with guns kept at home, flee immediately after the incident fearing punishment from their fathers. They become separated from their families and drop out of school.
Aref Qied, 15, from Zubaid Uzla village in Ans District, in the central governorate of Dhamar, has not returned home since he shot dead his mother in mid-November 2009 while playing with his family's AK-47 assault... (GunPolicy.org)