Australian girl dies after Pakistani police ‘mistakenly’ shoots family, officer arrested

An Australian child has died in eastern Pakistan after being shot by police. The incident occurred on Wednesday when police in Punjab province responded to a robbery.

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Australian girl dies after Pakistani police ‘mistakenly’ shoots family, officer arrested

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An Australian child has died in eastern Pakistan after being shot by police. The incident occurred on Wednesday when police in Punjab province responded to a robbery. Officers exchanged fire with suspects who were holding a family at gunpoint in their car. According to a statement from the Punjab Police’s Crime Control Department, an officer mistakenly believed the suspects were attempting to flee in the victims' vehicle and discharged their weapon. This resulted in the child's death and injuries to two other family members. Australia has requested an investigation into the incident, and a police officer has been arrested.

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An officer mistakenly assessed that suspects were attempting to flee in the victims’ vehicle and discharged his weapon.

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Police stated officers exchanged fire with robbery suspects who were holding the family at gunpoint.

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Canberra has called for an investigation into the incident.

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Two family members were wounded in the incident.

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An Australian child died after Pakistani police mistakenly shot her family.

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Police shot and killed an Australian child in eastern Pakistan, authorities said, with Canberra calling on Monday for an investigation into the incident that also wounded two of the girl’s family members.Police in Pakistan’s most populous eastern province, Punjab, said that officers responding to a robbery exchanged fire with the suspects who were holding the passengers of a family’s car at gunpoint on Wednesday.“In the ensuing chaos, the officer involved mistakenly assessed that the suspects were attempting to flee in the victims’ vehicle and discharged his weapon,” the Punjab-police" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="146566" data-entity-type="organization">Punjab Police’s Crime Control Department said in a statement on Sunday.

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