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Border Police trainee killed in apparent accidental shooting by friend
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Border Police trainee has been killed after he was shot by his friend, a soldier, in an apparent case of accidental discharge.
According to Hebrew media reports, the trainee and several others had been playing around with their weapons at a home in Azor, south of Tel Aviv, when one of the guns went off. The young man was pronounced dead on the spot by paramedics after they failed to resuscitate him.
Police say two people who were involved have been detained. One of the detainees is a soldier in the Givati Brigade, Haaretz reports.
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