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A vet who became notorious for sharing snaps of trophy kills including a lion has died – after slipping on ice and plunging 100ft to his death on a hunt.

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Luciano Ponzetto, 55, received death threats and hate mail after posing next to his trophy kills.

He died after slipping while hunting birds in the hills above Turin, and falling into the ravine in the Colle delle Oche in Italy.

An Italian police spokesman told The Sun, ‘We were called by the mountain rescue services who had been alerted to the incident by someone who was out with him.


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‘His body was recovered by helicopter and taken to a local hospital.



‘It looks like he slipped and fell when he was out hunting. He died instantly and there was nothing that could be done.’