Nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel fatally shot in Liverpool home

‘Abhorrent crime’ is latest in spate of knife and gun violence gripping Merseyside

Forensic police outside a house in the Knotty Ash area in Liverpool
Forensic police at the scene in the Knotty Ash area in Liverpool
(Image credit: Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images)

Merseyside Police has launched a murder investigation after a nine-year-old girl was fatally shot in the chest in her home.

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