Sydney: A wild kangaroo is suspected of killing a 77-year-vintage guy who changed into retaining it as a pet, Australian police stated Tuesday — reportedly the primary deadly roo assault in 86 years. The guy, who has now no longer been identified, changed into determined via way of means of a relative on Sunday afternoon with “critical injuries” at a belongings withinside the carefully populated southern metropolis of Redmond in Western Australia, police stated.
“It is thought the person have been attacked via way of means of the kangaroo in advance withinside the day,” a nation police spokesman stated.
An ambulance group raced to the scene, however the guy died there.
“At the belongings, there has been a kangaroo that changed into stopping the ambulance group from getting access to the injured guy,” the police spokesman stated.
Police stated they needed to shoot and kill the animal, as it “changed into posing an ongoing hazard to emergency responders”. The kangaroo changed into believed to be a wild animal being saved via way of means of the person as a pet, police stated.
Though the kangaroo species changed into now no longer identified, the Great Southern place of Western Australia is domestic to the western gray.
The male western gray can develop as much as 2.2 metres (extra than seven feet) lengthy and weigh as much as 70 kg (154 pounds).
Australian media stated the remaining said deadly assault via way of means of a kangaroo changed into believed to be in 1936.
In that incident, the Sydney Morning Herald said that a 38-year-vintage guy, William Cruickshank, had died in clinic in New South Wales, months after being attacked as he attempted to rescue puppies from a big kangaroo.
The assault left him with a damaged jaw and good sized head injuries.