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Bull-run through New York8217;s streets

NEW YORK: A wild bull escaped from an illegal rodeo on Monday and rampaged through city streets in the New York borough of Queens before it was shot to death by police. Police officers were shutting down the show, which did not have proper permits for wild animals in the city on Sunday, when the 2,000-pound bull escaped on a brief tour of the Big Apple, the New York Post reported on Monday. Four police officers set off on foot after the beast, as did the rodeo8217;s bull rider, who waved his lasso in the air for good effect. The officers cornered the bull in the parking lot of a nearby housing project, where they shot it more than 40 times before it died, the paper said.