Wild Boars Appear Again in Downtown Sejong: Two Shot Dead, One Escapes

Reports Surge Ahead of School Commute Hours
One Boar Enters Commercial Underground Parking Lot... Two Shot and Killed

Three wild boars appeared in the middle of downtown Sejong, prompting firefighters and police officers to attempt to capture them. Of the three, two were shot and killed, while one managed to escape out of the city center.

The 119 response team capturing a wild boar that appeared in downtown Sejong on the 7th. Sejong City

According to Yonhap News on May 7, the Sejong Fire Headquarters received the first report at 1:32 a.m. that three wild boars were roaming around the Gowoon-dong area of Sejong City.

The wild boars were then identified as moving from Gowoon-dong through Dajeong-dong, Saerom-dong, and Naseong-dong, the central parts of the city. By 7 a.m., a total of seven related sightings had been reported. As reports of wild boar sightings continued, the police and fire authorities, concerned for citizen safety during school commuting hours, deployed personnel and began the capture operation.

Fire authorities shot and killed one wild boar near a soundproof wall in an apartment complex in Dajeong-dong. During this process, the other two boars fled.

Of the escaped wild boars, it was confirmed that one entered the underground parking lot of a commercial building in Naseong-dong. The capture team closed off the vehicle entrance to the building and shot and killed the wild boar near the elevator on the second basement floor.

The fire authorities reported that two of the three initial wild boars had been killed, and the remaining one had moved outside the downtown area, leading them to withdraw personnel from the scene. While there were no human injuries during this incident, part of the automatic door at the entrance to the underground elevator was damaged.

On April 15, two wild boars also appeared in downtown areas such as Boram-dong and Sodam-dong in Sejong, causing damage to glass windows at a commercial building and the Korea Development Institute dormitory. At that time, the wild boars were reported to have fled toward Goehwa Mountain.

With recent repeated wild boar appearances in the city center, Sejong Fire Headquarters also conducted a joint wild boar response drill in a residential area of the city on May 7. The drill simulated the appearance of a large wild boar in the city and involved checking step-by-step response procedures, including searching, citizen evacuation, and capture.

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