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According to police, the female boar, about one meter long, attacked the six, aged in their 40s to 70s, including one person on a bicycle, during a 30-minute period from 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Friday, TBS reported. None of the six people were seriously injured, police said.
Later Friday morning, the boar was captured and killed by members of a local hunting association.
The dogs, two adults and two puppies owned by her granddaughter, jumped Alemeaner Dial Saturday as she sat on the porch of her home in the 1900 block of Gaddys Mill Road in Rowland, according to Bill Smith, the Robeson County health director.
Smith said the granddaughter and her dogs had been living with Dial, and the dogs had all their vaccinations and appeared to have been properly cared for.
"It's not something you'd find in the Delaware River or this far up. Usually they are open water animals, not inland like this," said Bob Schoelkopf with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center.
"When I approached my guys about this yesterday, none of them could believe it until they came down and saw it for themselves," said Clint Miller, Manager for Commercial Township's Public Works.
Public works crews brought the whale to the landfill in Commercial Township. Officials cut up the whale and examined it to try and determine the cause of death.
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The 39-year-old woman was working in a rice field in Pho Hoa commune in Quang Ngai province when the animal attacked her, said Nguyen Van Nho, chairman of the commune's People's Committee.
The woman died several hours later.
The boar was being pursued by hunters when it attacked the woman, and the animal was later shot, Nho said, adding that it was the first such incident reported in the commune.
"If it was not being chased, the animal would not have attacked her," he said.
Boars used to be a common sight in the area, but they have become much scarcer in recent years because of hunting.
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The two beasts charged into Nyambi village, trampling an eight-year-old child, a 75-year-old man and five others who failed to outpace the gigantic mammals.
"This was the highest death toll caused by elephants in recent memory," said Andrew Mayawo, a police spokesman from Machinga district on Tuesday.
The elephants were later herded back to the national park with the help of police and environmental experts, Mayawo said.
"The problem is that the villagers have vandalised the barbed wire fence which keeps the elephants at bay."
Hospital medics in north Cumbria have faced a flood of patients bitten by their pets, with more than 18,000 treated over the last five years.
The staggering statistic has been revealed by the NHS trust which runs the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle and Whitehaven's West Cumberland Hospital.
While the benefits of pet ownership are well documented, the figures - released in response to a Freedom of Information request - show the potential dangers.
Ouch: Terry Bowes from Wetheriggs Animal Rescue Centre with a tarantula. ‘Spiders and reptiles can never be fully domesticated’ he warns
While the benefits of pet ownership are well documented, the figures - released in response to a Freedom of Information request - show the potential dangers.
© WikipediaA 3-month-old awaits surgery after being attacked by rats in her Alexandra home.
The rats attacked Erena Yekanyi at her home last Monday, The New Age reported on Wednesday.
"I was washing outside while Erena was sleeping inside the house. I heard her cry and when I ran into the house, I found her covered in blood," the baby's mother, Thandaza reportedly said.
The baby would continue to await reconstructive surgery at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital until her mother was able to raise funds for the procedure.
The attack was not the first in the township, according to the report.
The puffer found on Hors
The bizarre find was made by staff of the Ecomare marine centre during a walk. The fish, 51 centimetres long, has the latin name Lagocephalus lagocephalus and is only found in tropical and sub-tropical eastern Atlantic waters.
'It was a real tropical surprise,' Ecomare workers Pierre Bonnet and Arthur Oosterbaan said on the organisation's website.
© David HaxtonIwi perform a karakia by the dead humpback whale on Waikanae Beach.
Department of Conservation spokeswoman Jane Dobson said they received reports of the stranding, south of Waikanae Boat Club, around 6.30am.
"It's been confirmed that it's a humpback whale, approximately 10 metres long and estimated to be about 25 to 30 tonne.
"Senior ranger Brent Tandy has said that its smaller size suggests it's not fully mature."
Ms Dobson said it was unknown how the whale had died, but it appeared to have been dead for some time.
Comment: See also: TV cameraman viciously attacked by a wild boar on Japanese street