Boy, 7, shoots brother, 5, dead

A five-year-old boy was killed when his seven-year-old brother accidentally shot him in the head while playing with a small-calibre weapon from their father’s gun shop, German police said today.

The shooting occurred yesterday when the seven-year-old was taking target practice at a plastic bottle in the garden of their family home in Regen, a small community about 80 miles north-east of Munich.