A man has died in a hunting-related accident, caused by a dog stepping on a gun.


Washington: A man has died from his injuries in a weekend shooting that was a hunting-related accident, caused by a dog stepping on a gun.
According to the preliminary investigation, a pet dog shot and killed a man in the United States after the animal stepped on and accidentally discharged a gun left on the backseat of a pickup truck.
As per police in the central US state of Kansas, the 30-year-old man was sitting in the truck’s front passenger seat and was struck in the back as he and the dog were out on a hunting excursion.
“A canine belonging to the owner of the pickup stepped on the rifle, causing the weapon to discharge. The fired round struck the passenger, who died of his injuries on scene,” the Sumner County Sheriff’s office said.
Emergency medical personnel administered CPR before the victim, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead at the scene.
“The investigation is ongoing, but the preliminary investigation shows it to be a hunting-related accident,” the sheriff’s office added in a separate statement.

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