Wild Boars

In a tragic incident, three people including a Class 7 student were electrocuted to death when they inadvertently stepped onto an illegal electric fence erected to prevent wild boars from entering into the farmlands.

Forest officials in Odisha's Kendrapara district on Saturday rescued a wild boar from a man's home and arrested him on the charge of unlawfully confining the wild animal in his house, an official said.

A woman in her fifties who fell into a well near Adoor here while trying to escape from a wild boar a day ago, was rescued on Tuesday by fire force personnel after being trapped there for around 20 hours.

A wild boar was shot dead after it attacked and killed a 65-year-old farmer and injured two women at Haradanahalli village in Holenarasipura taluk of Hassan district on Monday, forest department officials said.

A couple and their two minor children drowned when the car they were traveling in fell into a water-filled pit after hitting a wild boar crossing the road in Gujarat's Patan district on Wednesday, police said.

A female leopard and two cubs died after they came in contact with live wires laid to poach wild boars in Maharashtra's Gondia district, an official said today. Four people have been arrested in connection with the death of the big cats.

German police on Friday called off a search for a wild animal initially believed to be a lioness roaming the outskirts of Berlin after determining it was more likely a wild boar.

Emerging as an epitome of courage, a middle-aged woman on Sunday fought with a wild boar to save her 11-year-old daughter in Chhattisgarh's Korba district.

A courageous woman fought off a wild boar to save her 11-year-old daughter at a farmland in Chhattisgarh's Korba district, forest officials said on Monday.

The cause of his death is still unclear but he is thought to have sustained a head injury while on a scholarship at a sports academy in the UK.

A French hunter who shot dead a Franco-British man he mistook for a wild boar got a two-year suspended sentence on Thursday, days after the government outlined tighter rules for the sport.

A two-year-old tiger and a hyena have been found dead in the Panna Tiger Reserve of Madhya Pradesh in the last couple of days with forest department officials suspecting the animals got trapped in 'live' wire fences set up to keep wild boars at bay.

A French hunter told a court Thursday that he was sorry and "marked for life" after killing a man he mistook for a wild boar.

A 62-year-old woman was killed and six others were injured when wild boars attacked them in Odisha's Ganjam district on Sunday, police said.

A British woman died after being shot by her companion during a wild boar hunt in France on Sunday, in what a prosecutor described as a "dramatic accident".

In a tragic incident, three people including a Class 7 student were electrocuted to death when they inadvertently stepped onto an illegal electric fence erected to prevent wild boars from entering into the farmlands.

Forest officials in Odisha's Kendrapara district on Saturday rescued a wild boar from a man's home and arrested him on the charge of unlawfully confining the wild animal in his house, an official said.

A woman in her fifties who fell into a well near Adoor here while trying to escape from a wild boar a day ago, was rescued on Tuesday by fire force personnel after being trapped there for around 20 hours.

A wild boar was shot dead after it attacked and killed a 65-year-old farmer and injured two women at Haradanahalli village in Holenarasipura taluk of Hassan district on Monday, forest department officials said.

A couple and their two minor children drowned when the car they were traveling in fell into a water-filled pit after hitting a wild boar crossing the road in Gujarat's Patan district on Wednesday, police said.

A female leopard and two cubs died after they came in contact with live wires laid to poach wild boars in Maharashtra's Gondia district, an official said today. Four people have been arrested in connection with the death of the big cats.

German police on Friday called off a search for a wild animal initially believed to be a lioness roaming the outskirts of Berlin after determining it was more likely a wild boar.

Emerging as an epitome of courage, a middle-aged woman on Sunday fought with a wild boar to save her 11-year-old daughter in Chhattisgarh's Korba district.

A courageous woman fought off a wild boar to save her 11-year-old daughter at a farmland in Chhattisgarh's Korba district, forest officials said on Monday.

The cause of his death is still unclear but he is thought to have sustained a head injury while on a scholarship at a sports academy in the UK.

A French hunter who shot dead a Franco-British man he mistook for a wild boar got a two-year suspended sentence on Thursday, days after the government outlined tighter rules for the sport.

A two-year-old tiger and a hyena have been found dead in the Panna Tiger Reserve of Madhya Pradesh in the last couple of days with forest department officials suspecting the animals got trapped in 'live' wire fences set up to keep wild boars at bay.

A French hunter told a court Thursday that he was sorry and "marked for life" after killing a man he mistook for a wild boar.

A 62-year-old woman was killed and six others were injured when wild boars attacked them in Odisha's Ganjam district on Sunday, police said.

A British woman died after being shot by her companion during a wild boar hunt in France on Sunday, in what a prosecutor described as a "dramatic accident".