A tragedy occurred in the taiga of Ust Ilimsky district. A 62 year old local man was fatally shot when a hunter mistook him for a wild animal. Police are investigating. Another similar case happened there in early October.
The incident occurred on the bank of the Malaya Tira River, 110 kilometers from Ust-Ilimsk. In the morning, police received a report that in the taiga a 62-year-old local resident had suffered a gunshot wound to the abdominal cavity.According to preliminary information, he became the victim of a tragic accident. During the investigation, police established that two hunters, while near a winter hut, heard a rustling sound. One of them fired toward the forest and wounded a man whom he mistook for a wild animal.
The hunters took the injured man to the central district hospital, but on the way the victim died.
This is not the first such incident in the forest of the Ust-Ilimsky district. At the beginning of October, on the bank of the same river, a man shot his friend, whom he took for a taiga animal.
Based on materials from the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Irkutsk Region