A 13-year-old boy was shot by an unidentified assailant in the Mvera Support Battalion forest in Dowa yesterday evening.

The boy’s family relative, identified as Saidi Black, explained that the boy had gone to the forest to hunt birds with seven other friends when they encountered a hunter aiming to shoot a monkey in a tree.

Black said the hunter’s bullets missed the monkey and struck the boy in the leg.

Dr. Aubrey Mtondera, a surgeon at Dowa Hospital, stated that the boy sustained multiple injuries to his right leg.

Upon examination, Dr. Mtondera found the leg to be severely injured, and the boy was subsequently referred to Kamuzu Central Hospital for further treatment.

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