5.2.2021 11:49

The victim was cycling through a national park in Lapland when he was hit by a hunter’s bullet.

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Prosecutors have filed charges over ahunting accidentin which a mountain biker died from a gunshot wound in Urho Kekkonen National Park in October.

The suspect in the case, a man from the municipality of Savukoski in Lapland, is accused of aggravated involuntary manslaughter as well as a hunting crime.

According to the police’s preliminary investigation, the hunter was hunting for birds in the park and did not see the biker as the rifle was discharged, due to snow on the trees obscuring the hunter’s view.

A single bullet struck the cyclist in the upper body, fatally injuring him. The distance between the hunter and the cyclist was about 75 metres…