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Tai Tam Country Park woman bitten by wild boar on buttocks and sent to hospital for treatment

2022-01-19T07:54:46.198Z


Another citizen was bitten by a wild boar. Today (19th) at about 1 pm, a woman surnamed Leung (38) was eating in Tai Tam Country Park on Hong Kong Island. She suspected that a wild boar was attracted by the food and attacked the female victim. She struggled and finally


Another citizen was bitten by a wild boar. Today (19th) at about 1 pm, a woman surnamed Leung (38) was eating in Tai Tam Country Park on Hong Kong Island. She suspected that a wild boar was attracted by the food and attacked the female victim. She struggled and finally Still being bitten on the buttocks.

The female victim reported the crime on her own and was taken to the hospital by ambulance.


Legislative Council member Ip Lau Suk-yi raised a question at the meeting today on measures to reduce the nuisance of wild boars. The Secretary for the Environment, Wong Kam-sing, replied in writing, pointing out that a total of 45 cases of wild boar wounding had been recorded in the past 10 years. As of the 12th of this month, a total of 38 wild boars that caused nuisance in urban areas and nearby residential areas have been treated humanely.


A woman was bitten on the buttocks by a wild boar in Tai Tam Country Park on Hong Kong Island. Ambulancemen arrived and took the woman to hospital for treatment.

(Photo by Yang Jialang)

Wild boar attacks on citizens in recent months

At about 4 pm on the 1st of this month, a man and his wife were walking through Hok Tsui Village, Hok Tsui Road, Shek O, when a large and small wild boar appeared. Among them, a wild boar about 1 meter long suddenly rushed towards the male victim, biting his waist, causing injuries. A wound about 10 centimeters long, after the wild boar attacked and escaped without a trace.

At about 3 pm on the 18th of last month, also on Hok Tsui Road, Shek O, a 31-year-old woman and her girlfriend were walking near the Hok Tsui satellite communication station when they encountered a wild boar, one big or two thin, during which the big wild boar suddenly rushed towards the female victim. , and bit its buttocks, causing a 4cm by 4cm wound, and the wild boar also escaped without a trace.

On the evening of the 24th of last month, a 45-year-old resident of the Fu Hong Society Rehabilitation Center, Yuguang Road, Aberdeen, surnamed Wu, was bitten by a wild boar outside the center, leaving a wound about 30 centimeters long on his back and was sent to the hospital for treatment.

AFCD personnel were alerted to the scene, but the wild boar was nowhere to be found.

Hunting and killing wild boars︱The implementation of the new measures two months ago 38 wild boars were humanely destroyed Hok Tsui, Shek O, a wild boar bites again, a man was bitten on the waist and sent to the hospital in Aberdeen, Hong Kong for wild boar bites.

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Source: hk1

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