Saud health authorities have launched an investigation into a case of a 9-year-old girl who had a bullet lodged in her abdomen, it has been reported.
The bullet has apparently remained in the girl’s abdomen since the first day of Eid, the Saudi Gazette reports.
The newspaper previously reported that the child was taken to King Faisal Hospital in Riyadh with a deep wound in her back.
The girl’s family had told doctors that the child was playing on the roof of the house and that the wound was caused by fireworks set off by other children on nearby roofs, it said.
Doctors treated the wound, but two weeks later, the child still showed no signs of recovery.
The Gazette said she was then taken for an X-ray examination, and doctors were astonished to find a bullet lodged inside the child’s abdomen.
Taif Health Affairs spokesman Siraj Al Hemaidan told the Gazette that after speaking to police the family changed their story at the hospital, saying the girl was injured when she fell down.
The spokesman said a paediatrician in the hospital was also consulted, but could not identify any objects inside the child’s body.
Al Hemaidan stressed that the inaccurate information given to the doctors by the child’s family did not help them to correctly diagnose her case.
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