POITIERS, France (AFP) — It was no bull in a china shop, but a wild boar rampaged through a clothes shop in western France on Saturday before being felled by bullets, police said.
Christmas shoppers and employees were evacuated from the store and the 90-kilo (198-pound) boar began charging at police, before falling in a hail of bullets early in the afternoon.
Just how the animal entered the shop, located in a commercial area near the city of Poitiers, remains a mystery. But three boars were spotted during the day in the region bordering the countryside, a police statement said.
The other two apparently returned to their usual habitat.
Local forest service officials believe the boars are part of a larger group they are trying to relocate which have been spotted in the region, the statement said.
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