Wild boar shot dead after becoming trapped in empty swimming pool

Hunters shot dead a wild boar which had fallen into an empty swimming pool in the garden of a house in Svihov, west Bohemia on Saturday, the news website iDnes reported. The animal, which weighed around 50 kg, went berserk when it became trapped in the pool. Local fire officers first contacted a vet; he did not have a tranquiliser gun so they turned to the police, who did not have a net large enough to catch the boar. The local mayor then gave a member of the local hunting association permission to shoot the animal.