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NOS News•today, 3:23 PM
An escaped red deer walked through the Brabant village of Drunen this morning. The deer was discovered near a primary school and fled after an attempt was made to tranquilise the animal.
“I was chatting with a colleague when we saw the animal walking past the window,” says a teacher from De Duinsprong primary school. “Not something you see every day.”
From the primary school the deer walked further, towards the center. Bystanders managed to trap the animal and a vet tried to sedate it. “Once the dart is in his butt, it takes a while before it starts to work,” an animal ambulance employee told Omroep Brabant. “The injection startled the deer and it fled.”
Bystanders in the center of Drunen trapped the animal (the anesthesia started to work) and the animal was taken to the deer shelter in Helvoirt.
‘Not from the wild’
Animal ambulance staff believe the animal has escaped from a deer farm. The teachers at De Duinsprong primary school think that the animal came over the dunes from the nearby village of Cromvoirt.
“The chance that the animal comes from the wild is small,” says a spokesperson for Natuurmonumenten. “There have been no free wild deer in North Brabant since 2016.”
