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Taxi driver dies after being shot by a 70-year-old ‘wild boar’

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Last night (29th), a taxi driver who was urinating while parked on the roadside was shot and killed. A man in his 70s mistook the taxi driver for a wild boar and shot him.

This is reporter Yeo Do-hyun.

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Paramedics urgently attempt CPR on the collapsed taxi driver.

He was immediately taken to the hospital by an ambulance, but died this morning.

The reason the taxi driver died was a ‘gunshot wound’.

The taxi driver was shot three times in the wrist and abdomen while he was urinating on the mountain road next to the car, and he collapsed.

The shooter was a sergeant in his 70s.

At the time, he mistook the taxi driver standing on the mountain road for a wild boar and shot him three times.

[은평소방서 관계자 : 총 쏜 사람이 직접 신고를 한 거예요. ‘총 쐈다’ 라고요.]

At that time, it was investigated that the shooter received a shotgun from a nearby police box and went up the mountain to cause an accident.

The police have booked Yeopsa on charges of manslaughter on the job and are investigating the exact cause of the accident.

(Screen credit: Eunpyeong Fire Station, Seoul)