Vandals have set loose 15 kangaroos from an Australian theme park in southern France, sparking a major search operation, with three marsupials still on the loose.
"When we arrived on Saturday morning, five pens had been broken open, their padlocks were smashed and the perimeter fence was torn in several places,'' said Carole Masson, owner of the nature reserve in southwestern Carcassonne. "We had 15 missing kangaroos - it was complete panic," she said.
Firefighters, police and gendarmes were mobilised to track down the animals as they bounded through the woods.
"We found five in the park, and some more in the woods nearby. But three are still out there somewhere,'' Masson said, adding that a warning has gone out to local drivers for fear the animals could stray onto a nearby highway.
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