Man gored to death by his pet deer

A PET deer killed a man and left a woman critically injured in the Australian outback.

The man was gored when he went to feed the animal and his wife was injured when she came to his rescue.

Police in Victoria said the teenage son of the couple, both 46, saved his mother by hitting the deer with a lump of wood.

The animal was then killed ‘due to concerns for the paramedic’s safety on scene’, police said.

Deer were introduced into Australia in the 19th century, largely for hunting purposes.