Fowl play! 7000 chickens run on motorway blocking the road in Austria

Chicken and their transport boxes are seen on the A1 highway in Asten near Linz, upper Austria, where a poultry truck caused traffic chaos after losing its freight on July 4, 2017. Pic/AFP

The emergency workers in Vienna in Austria had an extremely unusual task as they had to remove around 7,000 chickens who were blocking a busy motorway.

The incident happened at Vienna during morning rush hour causing long traffic jams. The chickens went berserk on the road after a lorry transporting them lost its load.

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"Boxes containing dead and injured animals were strewn over a 160-metre stretch (of road) while thousands of chickens ran onto the motorway on both sides," police said.