AN 11 year-old boy was tonight receiving emergency treatment after being shot in the eye with a ball bearing gun.
He was taken to the Royal Blackburn Hospital at 6pm today, but then transferred for treatment at Burnley General.
It was not yet known how serious his injuries are and police said they could not yet reveal where in Darwen or how the shooting had happened.
But police said they believed another boy fired the shot.
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