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Monday, November 17, 2014

Schoolboy, 11, is shot in the HEAD with pellet gun.

Connor Minto, 11, narrowly avoided being blinded after a pellet lodged in his forehead when he was stood on the sidelines at an under 12s game in Chester-le-Street, County Durham.
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18 November 2014

PS.
In the year 1973 I was working in the Accident/Emergency Department as Registrar at the Becket Hospital, Barnsley, UK. A young girl around 10 years was brought in saying she had suddenly gone blind in one eye while playing in a public park on a sunny day. There was blood seen through the iris. There was also a small puncture mark in the white of the eye. There was very little pain. The child had seen a boy playing around with an air-gun in the park. I ordered an Xray of the head and there was an air-gun pellet seen inside the maxillary sinus of the affected side.
The Registrar in Ophthalmology saw the child and said that the affected eye was a write-off.

A child's air-gun is as dangerous as a rifle.