Wild boar attacks school staff member

A WILD boar attacked a woman at a school before it ran away but was later captured alive at a condominium in Singapore, reported China Press.

In the incident at 5.15pm on Tuesday, the 30yearold woman, who is one of the staff at the Punggol Secondary School, suffered injuries on her right leg in the attack.

She was leaving the school compound when she was attacked from the back.

The wild boar was later found in the nearby Waterbay Condominium’s garbage storage shed, where a security guard swiftly locked the door to trap the animal inside.

The republic’s Animal Concerns Research and Education Society spent over two hours to carry the animal away after shooting tranquilliser darts at it.

> The daily also reported that a schoolgirl who was made fun of by her classmates and teachers for being overweight took drugs which she thought were slimming pills.

The Education Ministry’s school management division health, intervention and hostel management sector chief assistant director Nadzman Radzaly revealed during a talk that the girl was from a national secondary school in Klang.

In his speech during the “Teachers’ Accountability in Combating Drugs” talk hosted by the Malaysian Institute of Integrity on Wednesday, he said there were cases where female students were duped into taking drugs which they believed were slimming pills.

“Unscrupulous people had misled the girls and that almost cost the girls their future and lives,” he said.

> Oriental Daily reported about a woman who did not realise that her oneyearold daughter was struggling in a children’s swimming pool although they were only a metre away from each other.

During the incident in Fujian, China, on July 31, the woman had earlier placed her daughter and another boy in the pool before she turned around to look for her phone.

She was said to be so engrossed with her mobile phone that she didn’t realise her daughter had fallen off her float.

It was only when the boy called to her repeatedly did the woman realise that her daughter was struggling in the water.

The woman performed CPR on her daughter before rushing her to a nearby clinic.