[FONT=&]Senior state advocate Addelaid Ferreira-Watt died after the freak shooting at the Ixopo Regional Court [in South Africa] when the shotgun dropped and blasted her in the left hip, News24 reported.[/FONT][FONT=&]
“It is alleged that the weapon was brought to court to be entered as evidence in a house robbery case when it accidentally discharged in court,” a police spokesman told the website.[/FONT][FONT=&]
Court staff desperately tried to stop the bleeding, but the 51-year-old mother-of-one later died in hospital. South African police are investigating a possible case of culpable homicide and are working to find out why the shotgun was still loaded.[/FONT]
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/lawyer-dies-after-being-shot-by-gun-presented-as-evidence-in-court/news-story/c11ad06eb53076a118b1a6b7a7b8a4ef