BERLIN – Police say a pack of wild pigs popped under a fence onto a stretch of the German autobahn, shutting the highway down for hours. Police in Lower Saxony said Thursday that at about 2:30 a.m. the pigs apparently dug under a fence designed to keep them and other wildlife off the high-speed road.

Firefighters closed down a stretch of the highway but were unable to locate pigs, even with the help of thermal-imaging cameras. Germany's DAPD news agency says the autobahn was reopened after three hours when it was believed that the pigs had left on their own accord.

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Polizei BOLO photo of escaped pigs
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