Nigeria, June 17 -- A police officer attached to the Anambra State Police Command, identified as Inspector Okolie Amechi, has been shot dead with his rifle by his ten-year-old son in Awka, the state capital.

The 10-year-old boy, identified as Dominion Vincent, also injured his brother with the same gun.

It was gathered that the officer was fatally shot in an accidental discharge incident inside the family residence in Awka when the young boy, unknowingly handling an AK-47 rifle assigned to his father, discharged the weapon.

The bullet also struck his youngest brother, Emmanuel, aged 6, who sustained gunshot injuries to his back and right hand.

Both victims were rushed to the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Am...