Wild boar in Hong Kong enters construction lift, attacks 5 workers and policeman on first floor of structure
- Animal fenced off after retreating back into lift following struggle with officers who were called to the scene
- Injured sent to Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam and Ruttonjee Hospital in Wan Chai
Five workers and a police officer in Hong Kong were injured and sent to hospital after being attacked by a wild boar at a construction site on Thursday.
The boar, estimated to be about one metre (three feet) in length, rushed into a lift and took a brief ride in a building under construction on Stubbs Road in Wan Chai, according to the force. It managed to evade capturers and was last seen running up a hill before midday.
A force spokesman said it rammed into the five workers when it ran out of the lift on the first floor. He said a policeman was also injured by the animal before it retreated back into the lift and was subsequently fenced off.
“After the attack, the wild pig ran back into the lift, which moved between the first and fifth floors,” the force spokesman said.
He said while the lift stopped at different floors, it was not known which one the animal had exited from.
The boar fled the site and ran to a nearby cemetery before running up a hill, he added.
The incident occurred shortly before 8.30am, according to police.
