Villagers look at a wild gaur ("khting" in Khmer) in Kampot province (Photo: Neay Keb, Koh Santepheap newspaper)Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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Translated from Khmer by Socheata
In an unusual incident, a gaur went on rampage after five men who were collecting woods on top of the Phnom Thom Mountain, located in Oral district, Kompong Speu province, causing one dead and one seriously injured among the group of five. Koh Santepheap reported that the gaur went on a rampage after the men at around 10:00 AM on 26 August. The injured man and the other three men who survived, told the police that a large gaur was going after them, trying to gore them with its antlers, when the five men were resting after collecting woods and setting traps to catch wild animals. Those who climbed up the mountain and ventured into the deep forest were people who usually went in to collect woods and catching wild animals, sometimes they would catch wild boars or wild animals which are sometimes injured from the traps, and these animals would sometimes go after them to try to gore or hurt the humans. Gaurs are currently very rare in the Oral Mountain, and only under this circumstance, that the gaur involved in the incident – which may be injured by traps or shot at – became mad and went on a rampage and killed one man and injured another.
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