8-year-old stabs friend during a game of catch

Haseena Bano could have never imagined she would lose her six-year-old son in an argument over a game of catch, right outside her home.

An eight-year-old boy allegedly stabbed Miraj, a student of Ganga Memorial Public School, after quarrelling over who would fetch the ball. The incident took place on Sunday night in southeast Delhi’s Tuglakabad Extension colony .

According to the police, the accused slit Miraj’s throat in a fit of rage. “Miraj threw the ball down the stairs and this made the accused angry said ,” a police officer.

The quarrel took an ugly turn when the accused took Miraj inside his parents’ single-room flat and began brandishing a kitchen knife at him.

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