Kangaroo Kills 77-Year-Old Man Who Kept It As Pet In Australia
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Australian police said they had to shoot and kill the kangaroo, as it "was posing an ongoing threat to emergency responders".
A wild kangaroo is suspected of killing a 77-year-old man who was keeping it as a pet, Australian police said Tuesday -- reportedly the first fatal roo attack in 86 years. The man, who has not been identified, was found by a relative on Sunday afternoon with "serious injuries" at a property in the sparsely populated southern town of Redmond in Western Australia, police said.
"It is believed the man had been attacked by the kangaroo earlier in the day," a state police spokesman said.
An ambulance crew raced to the scene, but the man died there.
"At the property, there was a kangaroo that was preventing the ambulance crew from accessing the injured man," the police spokesman said.
