Five people were hit by gunfire during an attack in the Ituzaingó neighborhood of the capital.

According to the primary police report, a five-year-old boy was shot in the left shoulder and transported to Pereira Rossell Hospital.

In this national reference care center is hospitalized little Amber, two years old, who the previous week received more than a dozen bullets in an attack against her father, who was holding her in his arms.

Her parent died and the girl has undergone three surgeries and is likely to be a paraplegic if she survives.

While Amber fights for her life, another minor remains in serious condition in the department hospital of Durazno, north of Montevideo, after shots were fired at a house that killed a woman.

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