Aarey Milk Colony residents united to conquer a foe that had been troubling them for a while a white cow. After the domestic animal, seemingly gone wild, attacked four people in the week, locals got together to buy a long rope to catch it yesterday.
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<img title="It took a team of five people to catch the cow and tie it to a tree. BMC workers later took it away to a civic cow shed" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2015/jan/Aarey-cow-1.jpg" alt="It took a team of five people to catch the cow and tie it to a tree. BMC workers later took it away to a civic cow shed" /> It took a team of five people to catch the cow and tie it to a tree. BMC workers later took it away to a civic cow shed
mid-day had reported yesterday on the cow&rsquo;s striking fear in the hearts of residents near Durgapada and surrounding areas. Locals had told this paper that the quadruped had attacked people who went to answer nature&rsquo;s call, as well as morning walkers and joggers since Monday.
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Residents had begun to keep their children from going out of their house and there was a risk of schoolchildren being seriously injured. So serious was the matter that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) authorities had been informed.
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Civic workers from the local ward had tried catching the animal on Wednesday, but couldn&rsquo;t dare approach the animal owing to its aggressive behaviour. Residents decided to take the matter into their own hands, and procured a long rope.
&ldquo;We did not want any more people to get injured, and as BMC officials failed to catch it, we contributed money and bought a rope to catch the cow. We attempted to control it on Thursday, but it chased us and vanished into the bushes,&rdquo; said one of the five capturers. The animal was spotted near Unit no 15 in the morning yesterday.
&ldquo;One of the dairy farm owners told us it was roaming in the forested patch near Unit no 15. We immediately went there with a rope, tied a knot, and were successful in tying it to a tree,&rdquo; added the man.
The BMC was informed, and workers later took away the animal to a civic cow shed. The cow, belonging to a deceased resident of Durgapada, has a broken horn and needs treatment in order to avoid infection.

Though BMC workers couldn&rsquo;t do it, residents of Aarey Milk Colony got together to rein in the cow that had been attacking them; animal was caught near Unit 15 and tied to a tree with a long rope

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