By Cathy Elelman • Published: 04 Aug 2020 • 17:12
TRICKY: Catching the animal was no easy matter. CREDIT: Policia Local Inca Facebook @policialocalinca
A RUNAWAY bull proved to be quite a challenge for Inca police. The beast escaped from the municipal slaughterhouse on Sunday and took off down the road, charging at people and cars it came across along its way. “When the week ends and you think nothing else can happen you get a warning about a bull grazing on an industrial estate”, Inca’s Local Police posted on social media. Given the potential risk the animal represented to both pedestrians and vehicles the force mobilised all service patrols. They found it near the cemetery, but catching it was no easy matter. The bull was frightened and kept rushing at the officers and their cars. CREDIT: Policia Local Inca Facebook @policialocalinca They got it surrounded, and while they were trying to calm it down its owner arrived. Eventually they managed to guide it to a safe place and snare it. The Guardia Civil and the relevant authorities are reportedly investigating how the bull escaped. Inca police another animal incident to deal with early on Monday morning. A donkey got out from a property onto the old Selva road, creating a hazard for drivers. Officers were able to get it off the road and return it to its owner.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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