MEXICO CITY (AP) — Residents and schoolchildren in Mexico Metropolis have helped police groups in an extended pursuit of a wolf free in one of many metropolis's neighborhoods, authorities mentioned.
Residents and police chased the animal on foot and on motorbikes within the northern neighborhood, earlier than the medium-sized wolf was lastly captured “with the assistance of neighbors,” town's police division mentioned. on the finish of Monday.
The tv station Milenio interviewed a 15-year-old boy who acquired away from the wolf on his motorbike. “Now we have come to catch the wolf,” mentioned the boy.
As soon as caught, police animal management officers lured the wolf with a rope and compelled the German shepherd-sized animal right into a cage for transport.
It was not clear the place the wolf got here from. He appeared trotting alongside the sidewalks in a densely constructed neighborhood close to a metropolis zoo. However the metropolis's Division of the Setting mentioned all the zoo's wolves have been accounted for.
Wolves are native to central Mexico, however are hardly ever if ever seen within the metropolis of 20 million.
