Uncle of bride killed in celebratory firing

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A man in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district was allegedly killed from an accidental gunshot during a celebratory firing on Friday night.

According to the police, the 55-year-old man who died was the uncle of a woman who was getting engaged at a ceremony in a village in Morena.

When relatives of the would-be groom fired from the stage to celebrate the occasion, a bullet hit him and he died.

The man has been identified as Kumar Singh Sikarwar of Dholpur in Rajasthan. He was pronounced dead on arrival by hospital authorities.

The incident happened at the engagement ceremony of the son of one Ramkripal Sikarwar. Police have arrested a relative of Ramkripal Sikarwar in connection with the incident.