Deer Appears Again Four Days After Stabbing Incident... Captured Alive Within an Hour

A Male Deer Escaped from a Nearby Farm... Captured and Handed Over

A deer that appeared in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province was captured after four days, and another deer appeared on a road in Uiwang City and was captured by the fire authorities.

On the 10th, Yonhap News reported that the fire authorities captured the deer alive at around 1:05 a.m. that day. The fire authorities received a report at around 11:55 p.m. the previous day stating, "There is a deer on the road in Cheonggye-dong, Uiwang-si, Gyeonggi, posing a risk of secondary accidents." The fire department dispatched to the scene found the deer and, after a chase, used a tranquilizer gun to capture the deer alive in about an hour. It is known that no one was injured due to this deer appearance.

On the morning of the 10th, firefighters are capturing a deer that escaped from a farm on a road in Cheonggye-dong, Uiwang-si, Gyeonggi Province.
[Photo by Gyeonggi-do Fire & Disaster Headquarters, Yonhap News]

Uiwang City confirmed that the deer was a male deer that escaped from a nearby farm and handed it over to the farm. A city official explained, "There were one female deer and two male deer at a nearby farm, and the male deer fought over the female, and the male deer that lost the fight escaped."

Earlier, the Suwon City specialized rescue team captured a male deer that injured two citizens with its antlers near a restaurant in Hagwanggyo-dong, Jangan-gu, on the morning of the 9th using a tranquilizer gun. The rescue team had been lying in wait there since around 10 p.m. the previous day, discovered the deer, and succeeded in capturing it alive.

This deer appeared around Gwanggyosan in Suwon on the 6th and attacked citizens. Around 1 a.m. on the 6th, Mr. Choi (33) was injured in the left abdomen and right groin by the deer's antlers at Gwanggyo Lake Park in Yeongtong-gu. After being attacked by the deer, Mr. Choi fled and, with the help of passersby, called 119 and was transported to Ajou University Hospital.

Later that day, around 5 a.m., a report was received that "a woman was injured in the leg by a deer's antlers" on the walking trail at Gwanggyo Reservoir in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province. A passerby who witnessed the accident called 119, and the 60-year-old woman, Ms. A, who injured her leg, was transported to the trauma center at Ajou University Hospital for treatment. In addition, on an online community in Suwon, multiple eyewitness accounts of "seeing a deer in Gwanggyo Park" were posted, increasing citizens' anxiety.

In response, Suwon City formed a comprehensive situation team including police and fire departments to carry out deer capture, citizen safety measures, surveillance, and management and supervision of deer farms. Since farmed deer are not legally designated animals for management, local governments cannot capture them, but the city has been conducting deer capture operations for citizen safety. Currently, wild deer are extinct, so the deer that appeared this time is presumed to be abandoned or lost. There is one deer farm each in Omokcheon-dong and Namsu-dong in Suwon City, one in Yongin City, and one in Uiwang City near Gwanggyo.

A city official said, "We will temporarily protect the deer at a nearby deer farm and then look for the owner. If the owner does not appear, we plan to proceed with the adoption process for abandoned animals."