KUCHING: A hunt for civet cats ended with a villager from Asajaya having close to 100 small pellets embedded in his neck after his shotgun accidentally discharged.

The incident took place around 8.30pm on Thursday when the 37-year-old victim and four of his brothers-in-law were hunting together at his farm near Kampung Sampun.

According to family members, the victim’s shotgun fell out of his hands and went off as it hit the ground, sending a volley of pellets into the left side of his neck and shoulder.

None of his wife’s four brothers were hit by the pellets, and they quickly brought him to a government clinic in Asajaya for medical attention.

The victim, who was conscious throughout, was subsequently sent to the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) here to undergo surgery to remove the embedded pellets and is reported to be in stable condition.

In a separate incident, an Indonesian man lost one of his testicles following a collision with a car in Lundu yesterday morning.

The 46-year-old man and his 56-year-old local wife were travelling on a motorcycle from their house in Sematan to sell vegetables when they met with the accident at around 7.30am near a village in Lundu. The collision left him with a fractured hip, while his wife suffered a broken leg and cracked ribs.

The couple was then admitted to SGH for medical attention where further checks by doctors on the husband revealed that the accident had also caused him to lose a testicle.