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Four injured after wild boars rampage through German town

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Four injured after wild boars rampage through German town
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Police say a pair of wild boars have gone on a rampage and injured at least four people in the northern German town of Heide.

Authorities warned people to stay indoors after the adult boars appeared early Friday and attacked pedestrians.

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Public broadcaster NDR reported that a man had a finger partially bitten off.

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Police said one of the boars was shot and killed outside a bank but the other is still on the run.

Heide is 100 kilometres northwest of Hamburg, near Germany’s North Sea coast and the border with Denmark.

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