Wild boar killed on university campus
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A WILD boar, weighing about 150 kilograms, was killed by police and security guards at a university in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province.
It was the second time a wild boar had entered a university campus in the city.
The animal was found walking through shrubs in the dormitory block of Huazhong University of Science and Technology on Friday morning.
More than 20 police officers arrived and blocked three gates around the dorm area, a third of which is covered by greenery.
At around 1pm, the boar was caught and killed after approval was sought from provincial forestry authorities, a police officer said.
Several days previously, police shot another wild boar that had been roaming around the grounds of Wuhan University.
Xiong Jiajun, an associate professor with Huazhong Agricultural University, said that judging from photographs, the two boars may not have been purebreds since purebreds had longer hair in deeper colors and usually don’t appear in densely populated areas.
Xiong didn’t know where the boars had come from but said that in recent years, some people in Wuhan had launched businesses which involved the raising of wild boars along with domesticated pigs.
Xiong said the lush trees and grasses at the universities may have attract the uninvited guests.
Wild boars have sharp tusks and have been known to attack people.
One boar killed a villager and injured three others when it ran into a village in Hubei Province in September 2012.
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