A buffalo that got detached from its herd was found roaming on the streets of the capital for nearly three hours yesterday morning.
Locals in the Panthapath area said the buffalo got detached from its herd when cattle traders were driving them to a slaughter house. 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 traders, 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 fire fighters 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 butcher arrived on the spot around 8:45am. With the help of fire fighters, 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 trader around 10:20am from whom it had run away earlier, Saiful said.
