Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Feral hogs attack and kill rural Texas woman

States have become increasingly aggressive in the battle to cull feral hogs. Here’s a grim reminder why: A pack of feral hogs attacked and killed a rural Texas woman on her way to work this week, Kim Bellware reports for The Washington Post.

The victim, 59-year-old Christine Marie Rollings, was a caregiver for a senior couple in Anahuac, a town of 2,200 on the north end of Trinity Bay 50 miles east of Houston. She was scheduled to arrive at her clients' home at 6 a.m. but never showed up. One of the clients soon discovered Rollings' body between her car and the front door. The official cause of death was blood loss, Bellware reports. "In my 35 years, I will tell you it's one of the worst things I've ever seen," Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said at a press conference Monday.

Though feral hog populations have been booming in the U.S., deaths are rare; Hawthorne said there have been fewer than six reported nationwide, Bellware reports.

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