A wild boar bit a 57-year-old Italian
woman on a Genoa beach last Friday, media reported Tuesday.
The animal, attracted by the sell of the pizza the woman was
eating, approached her, bit her on the arm, and ran away,
various newspapers reported.
The woman has been given a rabies shot.
Boar have been making increasingly brazen incursions into
Italian cities including Rome.
Farm group Coldiretti said the number of the animals in Liguria
was now over 80,000.
Italy is carrying out a mass boar cull amid outbreaks of swine
fever in Liguria, Piedmont and Rome.
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