Fatal Penetrating Lacerated Wound By Tusk of Indian Wild Boar

Abstract

Attack of wild boar is rare and death by single injury on body due to attack of wild boar is rarest of  rare. Although wild boars do not generally pose a threat to people, they occasionally attack humans. Due  to the clearing of natural boar habitats, the number of interactions, including aggressive ones, between  humans and boars has increased. When dealing aggressively with a human, boar will charge at them.  When ramming into a person, the boar will slash the tusks upwards, creating sizeable open lacerations on  the skin. Due to the height of the boar relative to a human, most wounds are inflicted to the upper legs,  fatalities do occasionally occur. Wild boar attacks are under reported. There are very few cases of human  attack by wild boars mentioned in literature. This case is reported for single fatal penetrating lacerated  injury to lower limb inflicted by tusk of wild boar.