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EASTER EGG HUNT ENDS IN DISASTER



AN EASTER EGG hunt ended in disaster when a teenage girl tripped an illegal hunting trap baited with birds' eggs.

Carina Faerber, 13, mistook the bait for chocolate eggs, setting off the hair trigger of a vicious razor-sharp gin-trap that left her hand hanging by a thread.

Her wrist was broken and almost severed altogether when she tried to pick up the eggs - used to lure weasels in woods near her house in Weisskirchen, Austria.

Her screams alerted local walkers who dialled emergency services, as reported by the Austrian Times.

Police say the eggs were left as bait by a huntsman trying to snare a weasel.

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