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BE CAREFUL OUT THERE HUNTING!


GREAT FALLS — Two Montana teenagers died in apparent hunting accidents over the weekend.

On Saturday, a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed on the Montana Hi-Line near his hometown of Malta.

Logan Wilson separated from his two companions to walk across a field, Phillips County Undersheriff Scott Moran said. After a short while, they went looking for him and called authorities after discovering that he had been shot.

The preliminary cause of death was listed as an accidental shooting and an investigation is under way.

The Malta High School sophomore’s funeral services will be 2 p.m. Friday at the Old Malta High gym, with burial in the Malta Cemetery.

No other information about the shooting was immediately available.

The other victim was a 17-year-old boy who was shot and killed by his 14-year-old sister as she was unloading a rifle, authorities said Monday.

The separate shootings happened on Saturday, the opening day of hunting season in Montana.

The siblings from Power were on a hunting and camping trip with their father, friends and other family members in the Missouri River Breaks about 70 miles south of Chinook. They had finished hunting for the evening Saturday, and the girl was unloading her rifle when it discharged, said Blaine County Undersheriff Pat Pyette.

The 17-year-old boy, who was standing less than five feet away, was shot in the face, Pyette said. The boy died at the scene.

Police declined to release the names of any people involved.
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