Coimbatore: A man from Vanniyapuram was shot dead by his friend, who mistook him for a wild boar inside a reserve forest at Anjetti near Hosur in Krishnagiri district on Thursday night.
Police identified the victim as Pasappa of Vanniyapuram. “Pasappa and his friend Nagarajan of Thottamanji village near Anjetti had entered the forest with country-made guns to hunt wild boars. They wandered off in different directions in search of boars. Nagaraj noticed a movement and fired in the direction, only to realise that he had shot his friend dead,” a police officer said.
Nagaraj surrendered before the Anjetti police. A police team rushed to the forest and sent Pasappa’s body to a government hospital at Denkanikottai for postmortem.