" Wild rhino kills woman and injures several people in Nepal

Teams with elephants and tranquilliser guns called in to stop rampaging animal from terrorising residents of Hetauda

A runaway rhinoceros can be seen in the streets of Hetauda. Photograph: Bidur Giri/AFP/Getty Images

Associated Press in Kathmandu

Monday 30 March 2015 10.57 BST Last modified on Monday 30 March 2015 12.23 BST

A wild rhino charged into a city in southern Nepal on Monday, killing a woman, injuring several others and chasing panicked people through the main market and a hospital.

Attempts to force the rhino out of Hetauda city by honking car horns and beating drums were unsuccessful, with the animal running from one area to another, government administrator Ram Prasad Thapaliya said.

Teams with tranquilliser guns were on their way to attempt to capture it, he said.

Thapaliya said the rhino gored a 61-year-old woman on the outskirts of Hetauda, a city of about 135,000 people that borders a forested area. An unknown number of people were injured, he said.

It chased people around the main market and the city bus station, he said.

“The whole town is terrorised by this animal. It even entered the local hospital, forcing terrified people to jump over the fences,” Thapaliya said.

Hetauda is about 50 miles south of Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital."

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