Summary An estimated 4,000 boars live alongside Berlin's 3 million human inhabitants.
(Reuters) - A wild boar seriously injured an elderly man and his son after getting trapped their garden in Berlin, police and media said.
The animal bit the 78-year-old and turned on his 48-year-old son as they tried to chase it away in the north of the city on Sunday, police said.
"The wild boar apparently panicked and started biting when it couldn t find its way out," the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper reported.
Police called in a hunter who shot it dead.
An estimated 4,000 boars live alongside Berlin s 3 million human inhabitants, say officials. Increasing numbers have been coming in searching for food, holding up traffic as they wander across boulevards but rarely hurting anyone.
