Chickens made bid for freedom when truck transporting them overturned on the freeway

Hundreds of chickens escaped on Saturday when a truck loaded with thousands of fowls overturned on a freeway in China, releasing them on to the road and surrounding grassland.

Traffic police attempted to chase down hundreds of elusive chickens and place them back in their coops.

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The runaway chickens forced police to close down a section of the motorway in the southwestern Guizhou province.
The truck was carrying coops containing a total of 3,000 chickens, of which 900 escaped. The driver of the truck said that the vehicle swerved after he tried to brake whilst driving in dense fog.