Village butcher and avid hunter Rik (59) may die in a fatal accident: “He was a very warm figure”

“Instead of looking forward to the future, on New Year’s Day we look back to the past.” The Oedelem hamlet of Oostveld lost its village butcher on Sunday in a possibly fatal accident. Avid hunter Rik Van Hoecke (59) died next to a field from a gunshot wound. “The news of his death hits the village hard,” responds mayor Jos Sypré (CD&V).

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