From: AAP
From correspondents in Ussel
September 19, 2005
A 60-year-old man, head of a local hunting society, was gored to
death by a deer overnight in the Correze region of central France,
local police said.
The retiree was returning with a friend from an afternoon's hunting
in the forest of Saint-Etienne-aux-Clos, near Ussel, when the deer
burst through trees and charged the men.
Severely wounded in the chest by the long horns of the deer, the
hunter died a short time after emergency services arrived, police
said.
The animal quickly disappeared after the attack.
Police in Ussel are investigating the incident to try to understand
what triggered the deer's attack and if the animal had been fleeing
from other hunters.
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