Second wild boar roaming Chinese university killed

A wild boar, weighing about 150 kilograms, was killed by police and security guards in a university in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, on Friday.

It's the second time that a wild boar had entered a university campus in the city.

The wild boar was found walking through shrubs in the dormitory block of Huazhong University of Science and Technology on Friday morning.

More than 20 police officers arrived and blocked three gates of the dorm area, one third of which is covered by shrubs. However, the wild boar did not appear.

Police had to search inch by inch before discovering and chasing the boar. At around 1 p.m., the boar was caught and killed by police after getting approval from provincial forestry authorities, a police officer said.

Several days ago, police shot another wild boar that had been roaming Wuhan University.

Xiong Jiajun, associate professor with Huazhong Agricultural University, said that judging from pictures, these two boars may not be purebreds since purebreds have longer hair and deeper colors and they usually don't appear in densely populated areas.

Xiong were unsure about the exact source of these two wild boards, but noted that in recent years, some people in Wuhan have begun to run the business of raising wild boars, pairing them with domestic pigs.

Xiong said the lush trees and grasses at the universities may attract these uninvited guests.

Wild boars have sharp teeth, and they have been known to attack people. One killed a villager and injured three others when it ran into a village in Hubei Province in September 2012. Endi