A rampaging cow that escaped from its owners on Tuesday
attacked four people along the U. D. Filling Station Road area of the
East-West Road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
* The rampaging cow after he has been tamed by youths
According
to eyewitnesses reports, the aggressive animal had also temporarily
halted construction work on the East-West Road as workers took to their
heels to avoid the domestic animal.
One of the victims, Mr.
Ogonnaya Okereke, said the cow slammed at them (victims) and used its
horns to inflict serious wounds on them.
While Okereke sustained
injury on his right leg, another passerby, who remained speechless after
his encounter with the cow, had a torn muscle on his left hand.
It took the efforts of two young men to tame cow, tie it with a rope, before youths in the area pounced on it.
Okereke
explained that: “I was going to check my children in the school, when I
saw the cow coming towards me. I called whoever was in charge of the
cow to control it, but nobody came.
“The cow came after me. As I
was about to cross to the other road, it increased its speed. The cow
lifted me up with its horns and slammed me on the ground. I sustained
serious injuries. My shirt has been torn."
However, an appeal by
the owner of the cow, Mr. Noah Salubi, who came to the scene an hour
later, that his cow be released to him, was rebuffed by the angry
youths.
The youths insisted that Salubi must pay the medical bills of fours person that were injured.
Two out of the four injured persons had already been rushed to the hospital before newsmen got to the scene of the incident.
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