"The sow panicked and was completely disoriented after being chased in the morning by hunters," a police spokesman said.

"It ran into a village and broke through a cellar window into a house. It fell asleep on a bed in the guest room."

When the 60 kilogram boar woke up late on Saturday afternoon, after sleeping for a few hours, it started panicking again when it could not find its way out of the house.

That is when the family noticed their uninvited visitor.

They called in a neighbour, also a hunter, who shot and killed the animal.

- Reuters