15 January,2011 08:01 AM IST | | Agencies
A hunter became the hunted when a fox he trapped managed to shoot him with his own gun. The unnamed man had tried to finish the vulnerable fox off with his rifle butt after shooting it from a distance.
But as the fox struggled,u00a0 its paw curled around the rifle's trigger and went off, blasting the hunter in the leg.
The shocked man, from Belarus, was hospitalised while the fox managed to make its escape.
The fox pressed the trigger of the gun by accident
A police officer who attended the incident in the Grodno region said, "The animal fiercely resisted and in the struggle accidentally pulled the trigger with its paw."
Fox hunting is popular in the picturesque farming region of north-western Belarus which borders Poland.
