Chinese mother hit by stray rifle bullet as she walks baby in stroller in residential area near firing range
Nanjing police say the round could have hit her by accident after it was fired when university students were taking rifle shooting training
A Chinese woman was hit by a stray bullet while she and her husband walked their nine-month-old baby in a stroller in a residential area in eastern China, mainland media reports.
Nanjing police believe the round could have hit her by accident after being fired by university students taking rifle shooting training at a firing range nearby at the time, Yangtse Evening Post reported.
Qin Haixia said she felt a sharp pain in her side as if she had been kicked, and then discovered blood seeping from a wound on her waist in the afternoon of September 12, in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
She was rushed to hospital where doctors operated on her for more than an hour and discovered a bullet in the left side of her waist.
Qin told the newspaper that she was kept in hospital for a month and was not yet fully recovered. She had also been forced to wean her baby following the accident.
