“Sharma police station received a call about the death of a person as a result of gunfire. Security officers rushed to the area and found that the victim was an 11-year-old Saudi boy,” Brig. Saleh Hamid Al-Harbi, spokesman of Tabuk police, said on Wednesday.

He said the gun went off while one of the family members was unloading bags from his car. He did not know the gun was loaded.

“The bullet hit the boy, who died instantly,” Al-Harbi said. The police detained the man responsible pending an investigation.