4-year-old dies after being shot at playground

A three-year-old child dies of his wounds after he was shot in the northern village of Bir al-Maksur.

The boy was in a playground near a school when he was critically injured in the upper body. He was taken to the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, where doctors have pronounced him dead.

He has been named as Ammar Muhammad Hujayrat.

Police are investigating whether he was hit by a stray bullet.

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