British woman shot dead on boar hunt ‘by man holding rifle backwards’

The 67-year-old girl was shot ‘above the center’ and couldn't be saved (Inventory image: Getty)

A British girl has died after being shot whereas on a wild boar hunt in northern France.

The looking celebration had been crossing a corn discipline in Goudelin, Brittany when the 67-year-old girl was wounded ‘above the center’.

It was reportedly fired by a 69-year-old man whose rifle was mounted on his shoulder with the ‘barrel pointing in direction of the again’.

She was rushed to hospital in Saint-Brieuc however couldn't be saved and died simply after noon on Sunday, prosecutor Nicolas Heitz mentioned.

French police launched a manslaughter investigation and took the person into custody for questioning.

‘The hunters had been advancing via a discipline of corn silage when one among them, a 69-year-old man, in circumstances but to be decided, fired along with his shoulder-mounted rifle, barrel pointing in direction of the again,’ prosecutors mentioned.

‘The shot reached his companion … and whose bullet induced a penetrating wound above the center.’

A manslaughter investigation has been launched by French police (Inventory image: Getty/fStop)

Mr Heitz mentioned the precise circumstances of the taking pictures are nonetheless unclear, however preliminary exams discovered the shooter was not inebriated or medication.

Earlier this yr, a hiker was unintentionally killed by a teenage lady who was additionally looking wild boar.

The stray bullet killed the 25-year-old girl immediately as she walked with a pal alongside a marked path close to Aurillac in southern France.

Her demise sparked requires stricter looking laws. The 17-year-old shooter had obtained her looking licence when she was 16. 

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