A five-year-old boy who was shot in the face by his older cousin continues to fight for his life in a Queensland hospital.
Police believe the young boy was accidentally shot at a rural property in Cottonvale after 4pm on Tuesday and flown to Lady Cilento Children's Hospital where he remains in a critical but stable condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.
"They're children. It's an accident - an unfortunate one. I don't know why it's happened," the boy's grandfather Tony Calvisi told The Courier-Mail.
Mr Calvisi said the children had found the gun in a place they shouldn't have been able to get to, but "children, they find things."
"They were playing with something they were always told never to touch, and I don't know why," he said.
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