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Highland cattle
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A runaway highland cattle ran almost to the train station in Flensburg on Monday evening – after a major operation, it was finally stunned by a hunter. Several streets around the station, as well as a park, had to be temporarily closed, as the police announced. In order to recapture the animal, both federal and state police arrived.
A second escaped cow spent the night in a paddock
As the Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitungsverlag (SHZ) reported, the animal grazed in the park not far from the train station. Eventually, a hunter managed to stun the cattle with a rifle. According to SHZ, it then moved into a cordoned-off construction site on Bahnhofstrasse, where it lay down on the ground. With the help of the animal owner, the cattle was finally loaded onto a trailer and brought to the paddock at home.
The animal, along with another highland cattle, had fled from a pasture about 2.4 kilometers from the train station. The other cow ran about 750 meters and spent the night in a paddock.
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