The trap was meant to catch wild boars. It snared an unsuspecting Chinese grandmother instead
Emergency services called after she steps on trap while picking kiwi fruit and chestnuts
Rescuers were called in to free a woman from a wild boar trap after she became ensnared while foraging on a remote mountainside in eastern China, the Qianjiang Evening News reported on Sunday.
The 65-year-old woman, surnamed Xu, had gone into the mountains near her home on the outskirts of Hangzhou, in Zhejiang province, on Friday afternoon to pick wild kiwi fruit and chestnuts for her three granddaughters, who were returning home for Monday’s National Day, according to the report.
She accidentally stepped on the trap on a remote trail, and tried unsuccessfully to prise it open with a hatchet before dialling emergency services at around 2pm.
Police from Wushi township spent almost an hour searching for Xu on the densely vegetated hillside, zeroing in on her by blaring a siren and using her descriptions of where the noise was coming from, the report said.