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Austrian woman accidentally shot by gun-toting hairdresser
Jan 13, 2011, 17:35 GMT
Vienna - An Austrian woman who was getting her hair done was severely injured Thursday by a hairdresser who mishandled her handgun, police said.
The 77-year old woman was sitting under the hair dryer in the home of a freelance beautician in the town of Wuermla.
The hairdresser removed her revolver from a safe to show it to an acquaintance, but she accidentally fired the weapon and hit her client in the neck.
The gun-toting woman had assumed that the revolver was not loaded, police said in a statement issued after the incident, which took place some 50 kilometres west of Vienna.
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