A near-tragedy occurred this morning in Locride during a wild boar hunting trip. In fact, a fifty-year-old hunter from Stignano, Fernando Russo, was wounded in the lower part of his stomach by a shot from a hunting rifle fired accidentally by a hunter from the area who, together with the victim and other hunters from Reggio, was hunting wild boar in the peripheral area of Stignano, in the Favaco district.
After the wounding of the fifty-year-old hunter from Reggio Calabria, the intervention of the Carabinieri and the 118 health personnel was immediately requested. After the first aid and treatment at the site of the wound, the air ambulance arrived: with the Russo aircraft he was immediately transported to the Catanzaro hospital and entrusted, after hospitalization, to the health personnel of the hospital in the Calabrian capital. To avoid worse trouble and serious complications, given the delicate area of the body reached by the rifle shot, Russo immediately underwent surgery. The man, however, despite the seriousness of the wound caused by lead, was not judged to be in danger of life even if his hospital stay and physical recovery will not be short.
Investigators from the Carabinieri Company of Roccella Jonica went to the site of the wounding and, with the coordination of the Locri Prosecutor’s Office, started investigations to establish the exact dynamics of the serious hunting accident. The Carabinieri investigators, however, have already identified the hunter from Reggio who accidentally fired a rifle shot with the intention of hitting a fleeing wild boar, wounding the Russian, a member of the team of hunters engaged in a wild boar hunt in the Favaco district of Stignano. The man’s rifle was placed under preventive seizure following instructions from the Locri Prosecutor’s Office.