{"id":62269,"date":"2021-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/62269\/7-year-old-killed-by-celebratory-gunfire"},"modified":"2021-08-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T00:00:00","slug":"7-year-old-killed-by-celebratory-gunfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/62269\/7-year-old-killed-by-celebratory-gunfire\/","title":{"rendered":"7-Year Old Killed By &#8220;Celebratory&#8221; Gunfire"},"content":{"rendered":"Seven-year-old Tayouna Sarraf was spending a peaceful Sunday with her family in their hometown of Minyara in Akkar when a criminal decided to put an end to her life.<br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QYLEajpPxx\">pic.twitter.com\/QYLEajpPxx<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Dr.Zee (@DrPedz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrPedz\/status\/1421926744123133960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  A stray bullet from an unidentified individual firing his gun in the air hit the young child, killing her instantly. <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%B9%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B2?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#<\/a><br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y3tnsAhYc2\">pic.twitter.com\/y3tnsAhYc2<\/a><\/p>&#038;mdash(@mohamadalsayedd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mohamadalsayedd\/status\/1421878310137696262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  Tayouna&#8217;s tragedy is yet another in the long, seemingly endless series of unfortunate gun-related deaths Lebanon has seen this year. <br \/>  <br \/>  Tayouna, may you rest in peace \u2014 you deserved better.     <figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" data-id=\"431427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/62269-2-250x188.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-431427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/62269-2-250x188.png 250w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/62269-2.png 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/figure>    ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-year-old Tayouna Sarraf was spending a peaceful Sunday with her family in their hometown of Minyara in Akkar when a criminal decided to put an end to her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":431429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-62269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[144],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>7-Year Old Killed By &quot;Celebratory&quot; 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