NARA – A wild-boar hunter mistakenly shot a fellow hunter twice in the abdomen in a forest in Totsukawa, Nara Prefecture, on Sunday, apparently mistaking him for a boar, police said.
Masami Miyamura, 64, was seriously wounded after Shozo Tsuji, 59, shot him at around 2 p.m., police said.
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