Bull is killed after its escape.A bull was shot dead by police after it went walkabout on a busy city road. The animal had escaped from its field in the Cowgate area of Newcastle early yesterday after walking through a damaged fence. Drivers had to dodge the brown Limousin Limousin (lēm  zăN`), region and former province, S central France, in the arid, hilly country W of the Auvergne Mts. It comprises the depts. crossbreed bull as it made
its way towards Safeway supermarket and the Cowgate roundabout.
The owner and fellow farmers tried for four hours but could not entice the 22-month-old bull back into the field. Police were called at about 7.30am and believing it was causing a danger to the public, called in its specialist marksman team who shot it dead. A spokesman for Northumbria Police Northumbria Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing the areas of Northumberland and Tyne and Wear in England. The service is the sixth largest police constabulary in England or Wales. As of April 2005, the current Chief Constable is Mike Craik. said the animal had been destroyed with the permission of the owner because of its distressed state. The A167 was closed off for a short time. North Eastern Limousin Cattle Breeders Club chairman, Stephen Priestley Stephen Priestley is an academic specializing in Strategic Studies. He is based at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Priestley is notable as the editor of the Canadian American Strategic Review, which attempts to provide a third party critique of the , said the Limousins are not usually aggressive. He said: "It may have become distressed because it was panicking." |
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