A wild boar entered the grounds of a Kyoto University dormitory in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward Tuesday where it caused a minor injury to the leg of a bike rider in his 60s before being captured.
According to police, the roughly 1-meter-long wild boar appeared to be a female. Before it entered the Kumano dormitory grounds, a passer-by saw the animal running on a street at around 4:40 p.m. and reported the incident to the police.
The wild boar ran around the dormitory grounds for about an hour before hunters shot it with a tranquilizer gun.
"I have been living around here, but I've never seen it before," said a surprised man in his 20s.
Another wild boar entered a hotel in May in the city's Higashiyama Ward.
Elsewhere, in Kobe on the same day, a 70-year-old woman was bitten by a wild boar on the buttocks on a street in the city's Higashinada Ward, suffering a minor injury.
The police said the woman saw the animal on her way home and tried to take a picture when it suddenly turned around and attacked her. The wild boar ran away toward the mountains, the police said.