8-Year-Old Girl Shot During Stray Dog Culling Operation in Fez, Morocco

According to Assabah, the source of this information, last Sunday, in Hay Ouad Zhoune in Fez, an 8-year-old girl was injured by gunfire from auxiliaries tasked with culling stray dogs. By shooting at them, even from a distance...

Assabah writes: "they followed the dogs that fled in all directions and shot at them, and an 8-year-old girl was a victim. And the auxiliaries did not stop shooting until citizens informed them of what they had done, especially since the little girl started screaming in pain and fell to the ground because of the suffering caused by the bullet fragments that hit her."

The little girl was injured in the right leg. She was rushed to the hospital. According to the same source, she would only have minor injuries. The police have opened an investigation and the author of the incriminating shot has been identified. The case will be handled by the competent courts according to the procedures in force when such a case, of injuries caused by an official in the performance of his duties, occurs.