Victim suffered injury to right side and was taken to Queen Mary Hospital.

But director of agriculture, fisheries and conservation says city’s wild pig problem is worsening.

People feeding the animals blamed for increase in sightings.

Former legislator Wong Kwok-hing floats idea at Eastern District Council meeting, but proposal is dismissed because boars can swim.

Officials and lawmakers say people feeding boars has led to an increase in the number of the animals captured, and have called for more awareness of the dangers.

Wild boar numbers have roughly tripled over the past two decades in Japan, partly because of a decrease in the number of hunters

The authorities managing the city’s campsites might want to take note of the increasing number of seemingly permanent structures as well as the danger posed by wild boars

The 48-year-old was walking to Imajuku Station in the suburbs of Fukuoka when the boar suddenly charged him from an alley

Animal knocks down and bites 75-year-old man and 65-year-old female security guard before running away.

Pigs lead police on pursuit through Causeway Bay and North Point as animals take in sights of the city.

Over two years, the government will assess if its plan to inject the pigs with contraceptives before releasing them into the wild reduces their population, as complaints of them venturing into urban areas spike

In Iwate Prefecture, only two of the animals were caught in 2011, when authorities started keeping records. In the last financial year, that number increased to 94

Some 57 species of land mammal live inside the city’s borders.

Four young pigs were killed and one other was later put down after vehicle ploughed into then animals near Tai Mo Shan