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Boy shoots

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ANKARA: An 11-year-old Turkish boy shot dead his sleeping mother on the orders of his father who suspected her of having affairs with other men, the Turkish press said on Monday.

The boy sneaked into the bedroom of his mother Hulya Yakar, 29, in the western town of Buca on Sunday morning and shot her in the head with a shotgun, the daily newspaper Hurriyet said.

"My mother was always abandoning the home. My father phoned me after leaving the house and told me to take the shotgun he had loaded and kill my mother. He said it was a matter of honour," Hurriyet quoted the boy as telling police.

The boy's full name was not given for legal reasons. He and his father, town council worker Yasar Yakar, were detained by police.-Reuter