In China’s cities, rampaging boars a growing menace as wild pig population soars
Authorities allocate funds and encourage hunting to cull the animals, which have attacked people and damaged property across the country
Wild boars are a growing menace to China’s cities, where the animals have attacked people and wreaked havoc on property, prompting authorities to deploy funds and hunting teams to tackle the problem.
Last Saturday, in an incident captured on video, a woman in the southeastern city of Chuzhou suffered minor injuries after she was knocked over by a rampaging boar while trying to carry a child to safety.
The animal had previously charged two children playing outside, narrowly missing them, and then went on to attack another resident on a motorbike truck.
The children were not injured and the boar was eventually shot and killed by police.
A few days earlier, one of the animals was the indirect cause of a railway worker’s death in the eastern city of Nanjing. The man was on a train that had collided with a boar, and when he got out of the carriage to investigate, he was killed by another train travelling on the next track.
