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Panda leaves wild for wander in city centre
By Guan Xiaofeng (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-18 05:30

A wild panda wandered into the city of Dujiangyan in Sichuan Province on Saturday and caused panic among local people.


Rescuers secure the panda before lowering it to the gound.
         
After a chase lasting several hours, the rare animal was finally caught and returned to the wild.

The saga began in the early hours of the morning when young men drinking beer at a food stall saw a suspicious shape nimbly climb over a 3-metre-high fence and enter a housing estate.

As they chased the "thief," a female stallholder exclaimed, "That's a panda."

Some people blockaded entrances to the estate, while others went into the community to search for the panda. They found it calmly sitting on the roof of a bungalow.

But when people tried to reach it, the panda evaded them and ran from roof to roof.

A woman surnamed Xu living in a nearby block of flats said she was woken up by the noise of falling tiles and saw a black figure on the roof of the bungalow.

As she was about to call the police, she saw dozens of people and realized that the black figure was a panda.
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