MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after a 14-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed her friend while playing a game of hide-and-seek, the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.

The shooting happened Friday at a home near Lake Norfork in northern Arkansas, the sheriff’s office said. According to a news release, the two 14-year-old girls were playing hide-and-seek when one of the girls found her father’s rifle and started playing with it, believing it to be unloaded.

The gun discharged and struck the other girl, killing her, the sheriff’s office said. The girl who died was from Jonesboro, but no names were released.

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The sheriff’s office said an investigation was underway but foul play is not suspected.