About 1,300 US children under the age of 17 die from gun-related injuries per year, a government study has found. Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also found that guns seriously wounded about 5,800 children each year. According to US media, more than half of these deaths were homicides while 38 percent were ruled suicide. The study, published in Pediatrics on Monday, also found 6 percent of firearm-related deaths were fatalities from accidental gun injuries. The study revealed that white children and Native American children were four to five times more likely to die by firearm suicide. The study comes as a four-year-old Pennsylvania boy shot himself in the face and died on Sunday.
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