Zebra sparks chaos after escaping from South Korean zoo

2023-03-24

Zebra crossing! Animal sparks chaos after escaping from South Korean zoo and running through traffic for three hours

Zebra named Sero escaped from Children’s Grand Park in Seoul on March 23
The three-year-old animal was captured after it was shot with tranquilizer darts

A zebra has sparked chaos after it escaped from a South Korean zoo and ran through traffic before it was captured three hours later.

The zebra escaped from the Children’s Grand Park in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, on Thursday, March 23, around 2.40pm, police said.

The 3-year-old male animal named Sero was spotted shortly after, roaming through the streets of Seoul, where it was seen running through busy traffic.

Footage posted to Twitter shows the animal frantically running back and forth trying to get away from a police officer and several bystanders who were attempting to catch it.

The male zebra stopped in front of a white SUV, before turning around and running off in the other direction, zigzagging through cars waiting at a red light.

The zebra escaped from the Children’s Grand Park in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, on Thursday, March 23, around 2.40pm, police said. The 3-year-old male animal named Sero was spotted shortly after, roaming through the streets of Seoul, where it was seen running through busy traffic

After his traffic adventure, the escape artist ran into a side street with a dead end, where the fire brigade managed to encircle it after it had been on the loose for three hours

After his traffic adventure, the escape artist ran into a side street with a dead end, where the fire brigade managed to encircle it after it had been on the loose for three hours.

There, the animal, which appeared to be breathing heavily and frantically looking from side to side for an escape, was shot with a tranquiliser dart.

Just minutes later, the sedatives started working and the zebra first collapsed against a lamp post, before getting back up and collapsing a second time in the middle of the street, crashing into the ground.

Once he was lying motionless, the fire brigade and other helpers wrapped the zebra in a net to transport it.

They put a muzzle over his snout and around twenty people grabbed the net the zebra was wrapped him to lift him up.

After putting him on the back of a truck, the zebra was brought back to the zoo.

No injuries or property damage in relation to the zebra were reported.

Choi Ye-ra, an official at the Children’s Grand Park in South Korea’s capital said that the zoo was investigating how the zebra managed to escape.

There, the animal, which appeared to be breathing heavily and frantically looking from side to side for an escape, was shot with a tranquiliser dart

They put a muzzle over his snout and around twenty people grabbed the net the zebra was wrapped him to lift him up. After putting him on the back of a truck, the zebra was brought back to the zoo

Sero wasn’t the first zebra that caused chaos this month.

Last week, a man was mauled in a horror attack in Ohio after his pet zebra maimed his right arm.

The brutal attack occurred at around 5.30pm in Circleville, with Pickaway County Sheriff’s deputies responding to the incident.

It is believed the zebra – which is understood to be owned by Ronald Clifton – was acting to protect six female zebras nearby.

‘I think he tore my arm off – send a chopper,’ Mr Clifton, 72, told 911 operators before responders soon arrived at the property as bodycam footage showed him lying on the ground in agony in a fenced-in field.

In police bodycam footage, the zebra in question can be seen pacing around the field aggressively, some metres from responders.

Following attempts to scare the animal away, one officer aimed a 12-gauge shotgun at its head to kill the zebra – which police said was a necessary action. It was eventually shot and killed.

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