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Mexico City police horses stampede through city streets

Dozens of escaped police horses injured one person and damaged 11 cars as they rampaged down one of Mexico City’s busiest roads.

Video shot by a motorist and posted online shows the saddled horses galloping through traffic on the Circuito Bicentenario.

Police say the animals became frightened by the sound of car engines as they were being taken out of their trailers near Congress, where they were being used to control protesters.

Local television showed pictures of a wrecked taxi, which was trampled by the horses in the stampede.

Some of the horses were injured and treated by the side of a road by a vet.

A police department said one person suffered minor injuries, and added that the city’s government will pay for any damage caused by the stampede.

Read more at Sky News.