The authorities in the US state of Oregon are investigating how a farmer was devoured by his pigs. Farmer Terry Vance Garner, aged 70, went to feed his animals last Wednesday but never returned. His dentures and pieces of his body were found by a family member in the pig enclosure, but everything else had apparently been consumed.
The district attorney’s office said that one of the animals had previously been aggressive with the farmer but investigators are not ruling out the possibility that Mr Garner suffered some sort of medical emergency, such as a heart attack, while in the enclosure.