MEDICAL Practitioners at Kitwe Teaching Hospital have successfully removed a bullet that was lodged in the neck of a 14-year-old boy who was shot by his grandfather over the weekend. A 61-year-old retired miner of Kitwe recently shot himself dead after shooting his daughter and grandson. Isaac Gondwe shot his 26-year-old daughter who sustained a penetrative bullet wound on the left side of the chest and also shot his grandson who sustained a bullet wound on the left side of his mouth. Kitwe Teaching Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Abidan Chansa said the boy sustained extensive injuries but was now recuperating well after surgery. “The young man who is about 14 years of age was shot through the nose and the...

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