A hunter risks two-year jail term after he had shot dead his 18-year-old son in what he claimed to be an accidental killing. The northern Russia hunter shot dead his 18-year-old son, saying he had mistaken him for a moose in their rural setting. The prosecution says the man aimed his rifle at what he thought was a moose in poor visibility in the snowy wilderness of the Khanty-Mansiysk district, and fired. “The hunter fired a rifle into a moving object in poor visibility, mistakenly believing that it was a moose,” investigators told the Moscow Times. The father has been charged with causing death by negligence, which carries a sentence of up to two years in prison.

Source: Punch January 09, 2019 11:37 UTC