Five-legged pig kills gardener

Khouth Sophakchakrya

Phnom Penh Post

A PREY Veng province man who tried to chase a five-legged pig from his vegetable garden was killed on Thursday when the animal retaliated with lethal force, police said Monday.

Ton Tin, the police chief in Sithor Kandal district’s Phnau I commune, said the 13-year-old, 200-kilogram beast, which he said was notable for its “small fifth leg”, attacked 63-year-old Sean Sok, knocking him down with a blow to a kidney and then feasting on his stomach until he was dead.

“It is a very unusual case that I have never seen before,” he said.

“This is the year of the tiger, so why did the old man die from a pig bite?”

Monks and lay people from a local pagoda offered to kill the animal in retaliation, but the victim’s son, Sean Vireak, took matters into his own hands by inflicting a fatal electric shock on the swine.

“I killed it to avenge my father after the body of my father was cremated and his funeral concluded on Saturday,” Sean Vireak said, adding that the animal was an evil and notorious beast.

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