Buffalo enters hospital‚ shot dead

A visibly enraged buffalo today went spread panic for two hours in a Buddhanagar-based private hospital, entering even the emergency ward. After failing to take the bovine under control, police had to shoot it dead.

Panic spread among the patients, their caretakers and staff of the hospital when a buffalo suddenly appeared in the Outpatient Department and then Emergency ward of the Hams Hospital at around 10.30 am, said DSP Ramesh Kumar Tamang, in-charge of the Metropolitan Police Circle, Baneshwor, quoting the hospital staff.


According to him, cops were deployed to calm down the furious animal. Police personnel from the Kathmandu Metropolitan City were also called to assist them. “For nearly two hour we tried our best to catch the animal alive but in vain,” DSP Tamang said. According to him, when all else failed the buffalo was cornered in a room that housed generator and the cops shot it dead with two bullets. Police suspect that the buffalo might have run away from a slaughter house. “The animal had an injury mark on its head that may have been caused by a sledgehammer,” said DSP Tamang.

However, the animal did not cause any damage to the hospital property or hurt anyone.

No one has claimed the buffalo. The dead animal was handed over to KMC officials for disposal.
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