WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: A male child killed a female child while playing with his father's pistol west of Kut, police sources said today. 

The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the 5-year male child shot the 11-year female child with his father's pistol. 

The female child was his cousin who had come to the house for a family visit. 

Kut, the center of Wassit province, lies 180 km southeast of the capital, Baghdad.

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