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Bulls run amok in seaside resort

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-09-04 14:37

The animals broke free near Tenby harbour in Premborkeshire, Wales, on Wednesday morning and were on the loose for several hours before they were shot dead by marksmen.

Police sealed off part of the town while they tried to catch the bulls. [Agencies]

Paul Edmundson, a 25-year-old boat crewman, suffered cuts and bruising when he was thrown up into the air trying to round up the bulls.

He said: "We tried to cut off the route of escape for the bulls when one came through a hedge and charged straight towards us.

"It just smashed the barrier out of the way and picked its target, which was me. I was trying to climb up a bank and as I did the bull dropped its head to gore me.

"I thought 'I'm not being hit by one of those horns' so I actually sat down between the horns."

"It flipped me into the air and into a hedge. I've got a few cuts and scrapes from landing in the hedge and a bit of a bruised bottom from where it hit me."

Another member of the public needed rescuing when he was left clinging to a cliff after jumping over a wall to avoid the bulls.

The animals had been transported by boat from Caldey Island to the mainland for slaughter.

Police sealed off part of the town while they tried to catch the bulls.

Tenby lifeboat station was forced to close for over an hour with seven people inside as the bulls tried to break through the station door.

Mark Lewis, a manager at Tenby Museum and Art Gallery on Castle Hill, said: "Apparently the trip across from Caldey Island had spooked one of them, and they bolted off the boat.

"They wouldn't be rounded up. When I saw them they were grazing, but one of them was fairly frisky.

"They weren't fully grown, but I didn't get close enough to measure. But you wouldn't want them charging at you in a rush."