SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2019World news in brief
Escaped goats cause chaos in Washington State (Mark Svendsen/YouTube)
Escaped goats run riot
Hundreds of goats ran rampant through the Issaquah Highlands, in Washington state, earlier this week. The
neighbourhood homeowner’s association uses the goats as an eco-friendly way to control weeds and help
clear vegetation between houses. According to Mark Svendsen, whose wife Helen Au-Svendsen captured
the moment from their car, the goats “broke through their fencing” before storming the residential area.
Nearly 250 of the animals were clearing vegetation in a nearby forest when they escaped, reported KING 5
news. It took more than an hour for the town to round up all the goats into a nearby dog park: “Goats are
goats,” Madsen told The Seattle Times. “They’re not like a machine you can turn on and off. They have a
mind of their own.”
Six men arrested over deadly nightclub stampede
Italian police have arrested six men on manslaughter charges for allegedly using pepper spray to carry out
thefts at a concert for teenagers, triggering a stampede that killed six people. The stampede occurred at a