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Adam Cailler & Graeme Murray

Rampaging cow rescued twice in 24 hours by cops after breaking into a shopping centre

A cow needed rescued by cops twice in 24 hours after it broke into a shopping centre.

The animal caused bedlam in New South Wales, Australia after the incident which happened earlier this week.

It was discovered going on the rampage in a shopping mall in the Caddens area, which led to officials from St Mary's Fire Station trying stop it.

Fire chiefs recruited the police to help and managed to capture the animal and secure it before taking it to West Sydney University where it spent the night.

The plan, however, did not go well, after the huge animal got stuck in mud.

The cow was first spotted on the loose in a shopping centre at Caddens (Fire and Rescue NSW)
They cow was left for safe-keeping overnight in the grounds of the nearby Western Sydney University (Fire and Rescue NSW)

The Daily Star reports it was caught in the sludge up to its stomach on the campus grounds.

Fir fighters returned to cow again again and were forced to lasso it with a 38mm wide fire hose and haul the brown and white beast from the thick mud pit.

They were assisted by crew from the Ropes Crossing Fire Station as it required a rather large amount of people to rescue it from the mire.

Video was uploaded by the fire crew where the cow can be seen getting pulled out, only to fall back in again to the mudpit.

A crew member was resigned to its fate and said: “It's fallen over . . . again.”

A spokesman said: “The crew, concerned about the cow's exhaustion levels and inability to stand, stayed with the animal until she recovered from the ordeal.”

What happened next to the cow afterwards incidents has not been revealed by officials.

No-one was able to determine where the cow came from or who its owner was, and its fate currently hangs in the balance.

The Mirror reported in August how a woman who died after being trampled by a herd of 30 cows while walking her dog was described by devastated pals as a "gentle human being" who "loved" animals.

Horrified local residents told how the 55-year-old was found “covered in blood” near the picture postcard village of Billingshurst in West Sussex, just before noon on Monday.

Some rushed to the stricken woman's aid before police, paramedics and an air ambulance arrived.

Residents and then 999 crews performed CPR for up to an hour in a desperate bid to save her, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Her sister rushed to the incident after reading on Facebook that her dog had been found.

Residents claimed a man was injured by the same “crazy” cows in May this year and had to be airlifted to hospital, but survived.

The victim - described as a “gentle human being” - is understood to have been a keen dog walker who worked at a local shop.

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