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 Man, 62, who was not carrying a rifle, ‘was charged and pierced by a deer, which stabbed him with his antlers’ 
 
 A 62-year-old man taking part in a hunt in the Paris area has died after being charged by a deer that fatally gored him, police said. The incident occurred around 10am (0900 GMT) in the Compiegne forest, about 85 kilometres (53 miles) northeast of Paris. The man was acting as a beater, who normally help corner the animal in a certain area, when he was struck. He “was charged and pierced by a deer, which stabbed him with [its] antlers”, a police spokesman said on Monday. The hunter, who was not carrying a rifle, died of internal bleeding before emergency services could arrive. Police said this type of death was "uncommon".
– A member of a French hunting party was killed Monday in what authorities are calling an exceedingly rare accident. Police say the unarmed 62-year-old man was acting as a beater (meaning trying to get game to leave their cover) for a hunting party in Compiègne national park, around 50 miles northeast of Paris, when the animal charged, piercing him with an antler, AFP reports. Regis Levasseur, described as a seasoned hunter, died of internal bleeding before emergency services got there. Authorities say hunting injuries involving wild boar are a lot more common, though ones involving deer are not completely unheard of. "It remains a wild animal, with unpredictable reactions," Guy Harlé, the chief of the regional hunting association, tells Courrier Picard. "It is a dangerous animal, contrary to what people think. The antlers of the stag are like many knives piercing you, there is nothing you can do." As for Levasseur, "For him, hunting was more than a hobby, it was his life," Harlé adds, per the Local. (Scientists have spotted a grisly first among deer.)