'A hunter shot at us', woman claims

Two British women are claiming they were shot by a hunter, who they later photographed, while walking along a path at the Ta' Cenc cliffs in Gozo on Tuesday afternoon.
The friends got away with minor pellet injuries as the hunter, they said, insisted that it was “an accident.”
“We were completely and absolutely shaken,” said Joanna White, 62, as she recounted what happened to Times of Malta.
“I have heard about shots being fired before and there being near misses but now, this is first hand. For goodness sake, please can we stop these hunters before someone gets seriously maimed,” she wrote in a Facebook post soon after the incident.

Joanna, a UK national who has been living in Gozo for six years, explained how she was about to have lunch with a friend visiting from the UK. Before lunch, they decided to go for a walk along the cliffs, close to the restaurant.
“We suddenly heard a shot that was really loud and we both jumped. There was a hunter standing there with his rifle pointing at the sky,” she said, adding that the hunter was standing about 12 feet away.
The women turned to walk away when they heard another shot. Soon after they realised they had been hit. Joanna was hit...