Hunting Accident: Macerata, a killed mushroom hunter was killed by a shotgun accidentally exploded by a hunter who he believed was a wild boar.
A tragic accident that happened yesterday afternoon, Sunday 8 December, during a wild boar hunt in the Colle San Lorenzo area in Serrapetrona (MC) where a mushroom hunter was killed after being hit by accident by a shotgun. exploded by a hunter engaged in a wild boar hunt. The hunter, a 45-year-old from Tolentino, realizing what had happened, alerted his batting mates and immediately rescued the seriously injured man, then requesting the intervention of the 118 emergency vehicles; despite the difficulties in reaching the inaccessible area of the accident, the Macerata Fire Brigade and a 118 ambulance with medical personnel immediately rushed to the scene, who had to reach the injured person on foot in order to provide him with the necessary aid. The man, however, died shortly after due to the very serious wound in the abdomen, barely managing to pronounce his name; the intervention of the helicopter rescue which arrived in the area shortly after the death was useless. The victim is SL, a 60 year old from San Severino Marche, a baker in Serrapetrona (MC), he was celibate and lived with his elderly mother in San Severino Marche; on the afternoon of the Immaculate Conception he had gone to the Colle San Lorenzo area to collect porcini mushrooms.
The Carabinieri of Tolentino also intervened on the spot to investigate the case aimed at clarifying the dynamics of the accident; According to the first findings, the mushroom hunter was behind a hedge to collect mushrooms and therefore shook the leaves, attracting the attention of a hunter engaged in a wild boar hunt as a team. In fact, the hunter believed that a wild boar was moving among the vegetation that the rest of the team was tracking down in the vicinity of his post and fired his own rifle hitting the mushroom hunter in the abdomen causing the fatal wound.
December 09 2013