A man has been arrested after an eight-year-old boy died when he was shot in the head on a remote farm. Police were called to the address near Warcop, Cumbria at 2.50pm yesterday (Sat) where the lad was found with life-threatening head and facial injuries. He was flown to hospital in an air ambulance but sadly died overnight. Cumbria Constabulary said their officers secured a firearm at the scene and arrested a man in his 60s on suspicion of assault GBH. He remains in police custody but is now under arrest on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter, they said.
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