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An Australian man is killed by a kangaroo in a rare fatal attack

A gray kangaroo hops along a hill side in the Wombeyan Karst Conservation Reserve near Taralga, southwest of Sydney, Australia, in August 2016. A 77-year-old man has died after a rare kangaroo attack in remote southwest Australia, police said on Tuesday. (Rob Griffith/AP)

PERTH, Australia — A man who may have been keeping a wild kangaroo as a pet was killed by the animal in southwest Australia, police said Tuesday. It was reportedly the first fatal attack by a kangaroo in Australia since 1936.

A relative found the 77-year-old man with "serious injuries" on his property Sunday in semirural Redmond, 400 kilometers (250 miles) southeast of the Western Australia state capital Perth.

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