Toddler playing with loaded gun shoots pregnant mother

Three-year-old girl ‘had no idea what she had done’, says Merrillville police officer

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(Image credit: David Ryder/Getty Images)

Officials in the US have issued a plea for gun safety after a three-year-old girl shot her pregnant mother with an unattended firearm.

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