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Woman shoots herself trying to take a "selfie"

A Russian woman has been hospitalized and badly wounded in her attempted to take selfies

  A handgun

A 21-year-old Russian woman has been rushed to the Sklifosovsky hospital in Moscow after being severely wounded when she accidentally shot herself in the head with a pistol while posing for a “selfie”.

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It has been unveiled that, the woman found a 9mm handgun belonging to a security guard at her office in Moscow and decided to pose with gun and take a “selfie”.

The woman accidentally pulled the gun’s trigger and shot herself through the temple.

Investigation ongoing has revealed that, the security guard could face six months behind bars for negligent weapon possession based on the laws which states that, “firearms,with the owner absent,should be kept in a special safe, beyond the reach of those not authorized to use it”.

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