A 56-year-old hunter died, shot and killed during a hunting trip in the Monieux forest near Carpentras (Vaucluse), the gendarmerie told AFP on Sunday, citing an accident.
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The hunter who fired the shot was taken into police custody as part of the investigation opened for "
manslaughter
" in order to clarify "
the causes of death
", the Carpentras prosecutor's office told AFP.
“
The two men were hunting together, one wanted to shoot a deer and hit
” the victim on the back with a shotgun, explained the gendarmerie alerted at 4:20 p.m. Sunday.
"
The firefighters tried to rescue
" the man who was shot and still alive when the police and emergency services arrived, in vain, said the same source.
