BERLIN (Reuters) - German police deployed a helicopter to track and kill a ferocious little pig after it attacked some cows, chasing one around a barn until it died.


The knee-high animal, described by police as a Siamese pot-bellied pig, entered the barn near the western German town of Geldern on Monday morning.


"One cow died after being chased round the barn, and a second cow suffered bite wounds," said police spokesman Dieter Brauers. "We thought it might be infected with rabies because it was so aggressive."


Police launched a search for the pig, scrambling a helicopter, which located it in a nearby field. "We surrounded the field and a marksman killed it with a single shot," said Brauers.

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