The little German pig that went ape

Germany: German police deployed a helicopter yesterday to track and kill a ferocious little pig after it attacked some cows, …

Germany: German police deployed a helicopter yesterday to track and kill a ferocious little pig after it attacked some cows, chasing one around a barn until it died.

The knee-high animal, which was described by local police as of the Siamese pot-bellied variety, entered the barn near the western German town of Geldern yesterday morning.

"One cow died after being chased round the barn, and a second suffered bite wounds," said a police spokesman, Mr Dieter Brauers.

Police launched a search for the pig, scrambling a helicopter, which located it in a nearby field.

"We surrounded the field, and a marksman killed it with a single shot," said Mr Brauers.

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