ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — A one-year-old girl has been hospitalised with a gunshot wound to her leg following a shooting incident involving her three-year-old brother who allegedly got hold of their father’s service pistol in Siloah, St Elizabeth on Sunday.

A police source confirmed that the incident happened about 4:30 pm when the police constable and his family were returning home from a trip to a waterfall attraction in northern St Elizabeth.

It is reported that the 31-year-old policeman stopped on a roadway and left his children, their mother and a 16-year-old inside the vehicle.