According to this article wild boars were extinct across most of Italy by the 1800s. Then Eurasian boars were imported into Tuscany and other parts of Italy for hunting in the 1950s. Now the place is overrun with wild boars. Tuscany is also wine country and boars love ripe grapes.
Boars have killed at least two people in Italy:
Isolated accounts of attacks on people have also stoked concern. A man died in the northern town of Iseo in May, apparently bitten by a boar, and media said a pensioner was attacked and killed while walking his dog in Sicily.
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