Shoppers were startled when they saw a wild boar perusing the supermarket aisles.
Customers at Super Point Hypermarket in Kerala, India, were doing their normal shopping when a surprise visitor entered the premises.
A wild boar managed to enter the shop and began jumping on carefully set-up displays on Christmas Eve.
Terrified shoppers called the Kahangad Fire Department to help the situation, but even they couldn’t coax the boar out of the shop.
Eventually, the animal spotted a way out and ran outside, to the relief of shoppers and employees.
A fire department official said the boar caused panic, but luckily, no one was hurt.
Five wild boars were spotted ‘on a night out’ as they strolled past a town centre pub earlier this year in Gloucestershire.
Britain has a burgeoning boar population in areas such as the Forest of Dean – where one man had his finger bitten off by one.
The pigs there have been attacking pets, dog walkers and have even learned when bin day is – so they can come into urban areas and rummage for food.
In England, boars were hunted to extinction 700 years ago but became established again in the Forest in the 1990s.
Wild boar are stocky, powerful animals covered in bristly hair that can vary from dark brown to gingery brown.
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