Officials captured a runaway bull in southern Massachusetts late Monday after a herd of the animals jumped a fence at a rodeo event Sunday.
North Attleboro Fire Department said Monday on Facebook that the last remaining bull in a group of eight who jumped the fence at a rodeo event in the town on Sunday afternoon had finally been corralled.
"The North Attleboro Fire Department reports that the remaining bull has been safely captured," the update said.
Earlier, North Attleboro Fire Chief Christopher Coleman said in a statement that "community members should exercise extreme caution and not approach the bull if found."
Dramatic video captured by an onlooker shows the moment the eight bulls escaped by jumping over a perimeter fence at the one-day event at Emerald Square Mall in North Attleboro at 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
The animals escaped their pens, ran through the parking lot and jumped over the fence before they fled south toward nearby woods, Coleman said.
One bull was caught just after it fled, and six were corralled 3 miles away by local police and firefighters, along with environmental police, workers from the rodeo and staff members from the New England Rodeo in nearby Norton, Coleman said.
No injuries were reported. The rodeo, which was being held at a mall, was under investigation, he added.
Attleboro resident Chris Mooney saw the bulls walk down his street and through his yard.
“As soon as I stepped out and I looked out there, I said those aren’t horses, those are literally bulls, and, oh, my God,” he told NBC Boston. “Two of them were laying down, and another was budging the fence trying to get out, and the other ones were just sitting there.”
