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Bull on rampage kills woman

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: In a bizarre incident, a rampaging bull gored an 85-year-old woman to death at Bhajanpura in North-East Delhi on Tuesday besides injuring two other local residents.

The stray bull started creating a ruckus late in the afternoon, violently charging at local residents and targeting vehicles. Though the residents alerted the Municipal Corporation of Delhi control room, the MCD team purportedly reached the area only after one life was lost.

Around 4-30 p.m., the violent bull knocked down Kalawati when she was standing outside her daughter's house at Yamuna Vihar in Bhajanpura. She was gored and trampled upon by the bull till she fell unconscious while people watched helplessly. Kalawati was first rushed to a nearby nursing home and then to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital where the doctors declared her "brought dead".

In the meantime, the police reached the spot and contacted MCD officials for help. Before the civic body team could arrive, police along with local residents had managed to corner the bull in a vacant plot and blocked its entrance with a rope so that the violent bovine could not escape.

Finally after almost three hours, the MCD cattle catchers arrived there and tranquillised the bull before taking it away. By then the bull had left at least two others injured, the residents told the police.

This past Sunday another stray bull had injured six people in the VVIP area of Lutyens' Delhi after running amok for almost six hours around Gole Dak Khana near Gurdwara Bangla Sahib. In the recent past, at least three residents have lost their lives to stray bulls in different parts of the city.

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