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Arizona is slowly becoming unsafe for kids, with children death ratio once again at rise after seven years lull, reveals report.
The annual report by the Arizona Department of Health Services released on Wednesday states that as many as 854 children under 18 years of age died in the state in 2013, a 2 percent rise from 2011.
'Of non-natural deaths, those from firearms increased most dramatically, jumping from 23 in 2011 to 32 last year. Fifty-three percent of the gun deaths were suicides', revealed the report.
While child fatalities from maltreatment and abuse plummeted slightly from 71 deaths in 2011 to 70 last year, death by drownings rose by four to 36 and vehicle accident deaths to 88 from 70 in 2011.
When teams reviewed the death of each child death in the state, including natural deaths, they discovered that nearly thirty-four percent of the deaths could have been prevented.
AW: Suchorita Dutta Choudhury