Armed and [un]trained: Security guard shoots first grader

LAKKI MARWAT:

Fatahullah a first grader was injured when a school guard accidentally shot him on Thursday.

The administration told the police Umer Daraz, a security guard at Government Primary School Kotka Mehmood Sarai Gambila within the jurisdiction of Tajori police station, lost control of his gun and accidentally pulled the trigger. Fatahullah was hit by the bullet and injured. He was rushed to the hospital where his condition is stated to be stable.

Locals expressed their fury at the carelessness exhibited by the security guard and urged the government and school administration to not hand over weapons to “incompetent” people.

They said people who are experts in handling weapons should be tasked with keeping children safe. On February 27, a teenager committed suicide inside his school in Peshawar using the guard’s AK-47.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 4^th, 2016.