10 injured as buffalo goes on rampage in Vietnam
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May 15, 2012, Tuesday
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A WATER buffalo injured 10 people in central Vietnam while rampaging down crowded streets, across a river and through a house before being gunned down at a kindergarten, an official said yesterday.
The male buffalo, normally a docile species used to plow rice fields, ran wild for about three hours over nearly 20 kilometers in Hue City, said local official Dang Van Ngan.
The 300-kilogram animal knocked over a motorbike, swam across a large river, broke down the wooden door of a house and collapsed a bed inside as three family members fled in terror, he added.
The animal bit an elderly woman who was crossing a street and she was hospitalized with head injuries. Nine other people received minor injuries, he said.
It also charged into a kindergarten where teachers raced to take eight children to safety on the second floor. The animal was corralled in the school's gated grounds, where it took two soldiers and eight bullets to finally bring it down.
The male buffalo, normally a docile species used to plow rice fields, ran wild for about three hours over nearly 20 kilometers in Hue City, said local official Dang Van Ngan.
The 300-kilogram animal knocked over a motorbike, swam across a large river, broke down the wooden door of a house and collapsed a bed inside as three family members fled in terror, he added.
The animal bit an elderly woman who was crossing a street and she was hospitalized with head injuries. Nine other people received minor injuries, he said.
It also charged into a kindergarten where teachers raced to take eight children to safety on the second floor. The animal was corralled in the school's gated grounds, where it took two soldiers and eight bullets to finally bring it down.
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