South Korean hunter kills man he mistook for wild boar

A hunter successful South Koreaaccidentally changeable and killed different antheral portion looking for a stray wild boar, constabulary said.

The man, successful his 40s, shot different man connected the roadworthy successful Yeoncheon region successful Gyeonggi state astatine astir 11.35pm connected 6 October, they said.

Three hunters from Yeoncheon’s carnal power squad were retired successful the nighttime connected Sunday trying to look for a chaotic boar who had been sighted earlier successful the area.

According to the section police, the unidentified huntsman shot the different man successful the dark, mistaking him for the carnal – accidents termed arsenic “mistaken for game” successful hunting parlance.

The bullet, which struck the caput of the antheral besides successful his 40s, critically injured him.He was rushed to a adjacent infirmary wherever doctors pronounced him dead.

The unfortunate was not carrying immoderate firearm connected him astatine the clip and was liable for installing a thermal imaging camera trap to observe the chaotic animal’s movement.

The shooter has been booked by constabulary connected charges of involuntary manslaughter owed to nonrecreational negligence. Investigations are ongoing, constabulary said.

Meanwhile, “mistaken for game” accidents are not uncommon crossed the world.

In March this year, astatine Bunnell successful Florida, a huntsman was accidentally changeable successful the caput and torso portion turkey hunting aft being mistaken for a gobbler by different huntsman who did not realise helium was there.

The victim, who was wearing camouflage alternatively of the recommended information orange, survived the incident.

In 2006, the erstwhile vice president of the US, Dick Cheney accidentally changeable and wounded 78-year-old millionaire lawyer Harry Whittington during a play quail-hunting travel successful Texas.

Mr Cheney accidentally deed Mr Whittington erstwhile helium turned to sprout astatine a bird, mistaking him for the game.

In 2020, a hunter, Lucas Dudley, was changeable and killed by different hunter, Rain Stately, who mistook him for a cervid adjacent the Red Lake Reservation successful bluish Minnesota.