KAMLOOPS (NEWS 1130) – An accident at a pistol competition in Kamloops has left a 50-year-old Vancouver man dead.

Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie says officers were called to the Target Sports Shooting Complex at around 1 p.m. Sunday.

She says the man lost control of his pistol and shot himself in the torso. He died from his injuries shortly after arriving at the local hospital.

There were several witnesses to the accident, some of whom tried to administer CPR.

“This is a real anomaly,” Shelkie says. “Rarely are there accidents — in fact I’ve never heard of one — at a gun range. Gun ranges are known to be a very safe place with the rules and regulations that they have. So this was something unusual for us.”

The man’s name is not being released.