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4-year-old Saudi boy kills father over PlayStation: report
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An angry four-year-old Saudi boy shot and killed his father for refusing to buy him a PlayStation, Saudi media reported today.

The Asharq daily, citing police in the southern Jizan area, said the child, aged four years and seven months, grabbed his father's pistol and shot him in the head.

According to the newspaper, the child had asked his father to buy him a PlayStation and the shooting took place after the man returned home without the desired object.

As he was undressing, the man put the weapon down, which the child then grabbed and fired at him from close range.

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(Published 23 April 2012, 15:59 IST)