A buffalo that escaped from a meat shop was found roaming on the streets of the capital for nearly three hours on Tuesday morning.
Locals in the Panthapath area said the buffalo escaped when a group of butchers attempted to slaughter it at a nearby kitchen market. The buffalo was first seen on Panthapath around 6am.
Wary of the crowd, the buffalo ran into a nearby building complex and stayed there for nearly an hour.
A resident of the complex informed the fire service around 6:30am on seeing the animal in the grounds of the complex.
A unit from Mohammadpur fire station rushed to the spot around 6:45am, said Fire Service and Civil Defence Headquarters control room duty officer Bhajan Kumar Sarker.
He said the fire service, with the help of locals and the butchers, later caught the buffalo and sent it back to the cattle shop around 10:20am.
The buffalo had been in the complex for nearly an hour when the fire service arrived, locals said.
When firefighters tried to enter the complex through the doorway of the main gate, the animal became angry and hit the gate hard. The gate broke down and the buffalo was able to get out. Then it came onto the open road and started walking about.
Saiful Islam, a resident in the area, said he came to Panthapath after hearing a noise, and found the buffalo roaming on the road.
The butchers arrived on the spot around 8:45am. With the help of firefighters, they tied down the buffalo around 9:30am.
Later the fire service brought a bulldozer to pick up the bull and transfer it onto a truck. It was then taken to the cattle shop around 10:20am from where it had run away earlier, Saiful said.
Neither the fire service source nor the local could confirm the location of the meat shop.
