In the Province of Florence there was a tragic hunting accident which saw the death of a hunter due to an accidental shot from his father's rifle.
This morning at about 5.30 am, in the woods of Fiesole in the locality of Bagazzano, in the province of Florence, three hunters, father, son and another relative, were reaching the area where they would carry out a hare hunt when the accident occurred.
The 62-year-old father in fact, by a tragic chance, tripped while walking in the bush paired with his thirty-two-year-old son; during the fall, a shot was fired from the 12-gauge shotgun of the elderly hunter that hit his son right between the shoulder and the armpit.
The father and uncle immediately rescued the young man by transporting him to the nearest emergency room of the hospital in Ponte a Niccheri but the desperate rush to help him was not enough to save his life.
In fact, when a wounded young hunter arrived at the hospital he was in a desperate condition; the nurses helped his father to get him out of the car and then take him to the examination room but the young man died shortly after due to heavy bleeding caused by the wound. Any attempt to revive him was in vain.
The Carabinieri of the Fiesole Station investigate the incident and have heard both the father, still in a state of shock, and the 44-year-old uncle of the young hunter who died, finding no inconsistencies on the version of the facts provided by the two; at the time of the accident his uncle was a few meters ahead of the other two and turned immediately after hearing the shot when he saw his nephew already slumped to the ground.
According to the first findings, the shot would have started due to a negligence in the use of the rifle by the elderly hunter who would not have inserted the safety while transporting the weapon.
Today's tragic episode immediately aroused the controversy of the animal welfare associations on the hunting activity which recalled the events that occurred a few days ago in Massarosa in the province of Lucca, where a child was injured by a hunting ball.
From the reconstruction of the facts it seems that the eight-year-old boy was in the garden of his home together with an aunt when they were both hit by a bounce bullet fired from the rifle of some hunter who was aiming at the game but which was perhaps too close to the manufactured.
19 September 2012