Quite shockingly, the tragedy unfolded shortly before 3:00 p.m. on Monday in the heart of Argos, when the 47-year-old father shot his daughter in public in Laiki Agora (Market) Square.
The 17-year-old girl was immediately rushed to the Argos hospital with two bullets in the head, and her condition was judged critical. Arrangements were quickly made for her transfer to a hospital in Athens.
Police later traced the father at his home, and was horrified to discover that he had turned the same gun on himself with a failed attempt to shoot himself in the abdomen. Both father and daughter have now been admitted to Nikaia General Hospital in Piraeus, and from what news reports claim they are both in critical condition.
Witnesses to this horrific tragedy told news sources that the father and daughter were eating together at a venue in Argos' central square when the daughter got up and went to a nearby kiosk to purchase some cigarettes. All of a sudden, and for unknown reasons, her father followed her and shot her with a gun which he illegally had in his possession, injuring her in the neck and head.
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