Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine &Toxicology

  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 2

An unusual case of death due to buffalo gore - A case report

  • Author:
  • Santhosh C. S., Vishwanathan K. G., Satish Babu B. S., Selva Kumar, Bande Nawaz
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Dept. of Forensic Medicine, J.J.M. Medical College, Davangere, 4.

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Abstract

The cows and buffalos are most commonly domesticated animals in the rural India. Deaths resulting from these animals are quite naturally common in the rural population. People who are passers by the road side, near a herd of buffalos are also prone of injuries caused by goring of these animals. A case report is presented here which signifies that death can occur in a patient gored by a Buffalo, where even though there was no penetration of the horns, but still the patient died as a result of injuries from the blunt impact from the horns and also the impact injuries sustained to the head from being thrown off the ground.

Keywords

Bull gore, Buffalo gore, domesticated animal, nonpenetrating injuries