Accident , Others » दुम्सी भनी गोली हान्दा साथी ठहरै :: Man mistaken for porcupine gets shot, dies

DHANKUTA, JAN 05 - A person was killed in a hunting accident in a jungle of Basantatar VDC at Dhankuta on Saturday night.

Surendra Limbu of Basantatar VDC-4, who went to hunt for Porcupine at the local jungle, with this friend Rajan Limbu, 24, accidentally shot the latter mistaking him for a Porcupine .

Surendra and Rajan went into the local Ramite forest carrying a Musket to hunt for Porcupine . Police Inspector of Raja Rani Area Police Office Surendra Prakash Shrestha informed that Surendra shot Rajan thinking of him as a porcupine in an attempt to ambush the large rodent from both sides.

"I saw the bush move. I thought the porcupine moved it and so I shot ," confessed Surendra during the interrogation.

Surendra surrendered himself to the police stating that he shot his friend. The police confiscated both the Muskets that Surendra and Rajan used for the hunt.