Horrifying moment out-of-control rampaging wild boar attacks Chinese villagers as their family members desperately try to drive away the beast. CCTV footage captured the moment Chinese villagers fighting off a wild boar. An old man was brutally attacked and his daughter-in-law was seriously injured. The wild boar was killed by a sniper at a distance of 131 ft, local police stated. A wild boar in northwest China was shot dead by snipers after attacking an old man and his daughter-in-law in a village.<br /><br />CCTV footage shows the boar attacking an elderly man who fell on the ground, as his four family members try to distract it using shovels.<br /><br />According to Beijing Youth Daily, the elderly man, surnamed Zhang, was chased after by a 220lbs wild boar when he was picking the coal to make fire in his house on January 31 afternoon.<br /><br />Zhang was living in Peiba village in Ziyang of Shaanxi Province, along with a bedridden wife, his son and daughter-in-law.<br /><br />Four villagers, including his daughter-in-law, known by the surname Xie, were driving the boar's attention away from the old man.<br /><br />Xie was gored by the animal when she was making a phone call. She fell and crawled along the ground.<br /><br />She was seriously injured and had to send to hospital for treatment.<br /><br />Ziyang Police Bureau issued a statement claiming that they had sent out officers and snipers to the location to shoot down the wild boar.<br /><br />Snipers had to use QBZ-95, an assault rifle to kill the boar at 40 metres (131ft) away.<br /><br />Police officers also reminded the public not to alert the wild boar by assaulting or shouting.<br /><br />
