Hilla A five-year-old child was killed by a stray bullet in the Hashemite district, south of Hilla, the center of Babylon Governorate.
A source in the Babylon police said: “The child was standing in front of his family’s house when he was hit by a stray bullet that killed him.”
He added, “The police transferred the child’s body to the forensic medicine, and opened an investigation into the incident,” referring to shooting at a wedding party near the scene of the accident.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency