Story By: Sibel Abdiu, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder,Agency: Asia Wire Report
A man has been arrested for shooting his pregnant wife dead while trying to kill a snake with a hunting rifle before the bullet reportedly ricocheted and hit her.
Syrian refugee Ali El Arid, 28, had started a new life for himself with his wife and their two children after getting the job caring for livestock on a farm in the Seydisehir district of Konya province in central Turkey.
But he was shocked when he spotted a snake slithering into the bedroom at the family home in the early hours of the morning, and grabbed his hunting rifle in order to shoot it.
However, the bullet ricocheted and hit his wife, Zeyneb El Arid, who was standing nearby in the back, causing her to collapse.
The husband called an ambulance and they transported the seriously injured woman who was just over six months pregnant to the Seydisehir State Hospital. However a hospital spokesman confirmed that despite emergency surgery, she died.
The couple have two children aged two and three and the baby was to be the third child.
The body of the victim was sent to Seydisehir State Hospital’s morgue for an autopsy and police are investigating the statement of Ali El Arid that the shooting was an accident.
He is currently in investigative custody and it was not revealed who is caring for his children.
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