Man Dies After Being Gored While Herding Wild Boars

Man dies after being gored by wild boar while checking trap

November 12

A man has died after being gored by a wild boar in Kyaukme Township, northern Shan State, it is reported.

At around 6pm on November 8, a 55-year-old man named U Lone Sai from Pyin Khar village in Mong Tin village tract, Kyaukme Township, went to check on a wild boar caught in a trap and did not return. The following day, his body was found dead after he had been gored by the boar, it is reported.

"He went to check a net where a wild boar had been trapped with a single-barrel musket. He didn't come back all day that day, so the villagers went looking for him and found his body by a stream, with his clothes torn and him dead. There were signs that a wild boar had been caught in the net. The boar must have struggled and gored him to death," a local resident said.

On November 9, U Lone Sai was found dead in a stream near the place where the wild boar trap had been set. When the body was examined, his clothing was found torn, he had abrasions all over his body, and wounds from being gored by the boar's tusks and bite wounds were also found, it is reported.

Also on November 10, in the Zopheram area of Thantlang town, Chin State, a young man in his 30s died after he and a companion mistook each other for a wild boar while hunting together and shot at each other.

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