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Chopper rescues woman trapped in tree by pigs

Wild Pigs - A herd scared a woman into trees in French village
Wild Pigs - A herd scared a woman into trees in French village

A woman in France has been rescued by helicopter after she got stuck in a tree where she took refuge from a herd of wild pigs.

The 30-year-old was walking near the southwestern town of Bagneres-de-Luchon on Monday when she took fright after seeing the boars and climbed up a nearby tree.

When she later tried to climb down she fell two metres (6ft) and got stuck in branches from where she called rescue services with her GPS-equipped mobile phone and was able to give them her exact location, police said.

After rescue workers arrived, they decided they would need a helicopter to extricate her safely from the tree and called one from a nearby base.

'She was shivering and suffering slightly from hypothermia' but had no broken bones or other injuries, said a rescue worker.