Horses in London doing routine military exercises bolted during the morning rush hour. One of the horses had its front covered by what appeared to be blood or red paint.
Military horses doing routine exercises on Wednesday bolted and ran through central London during the morning rush hour, leaving four people injured and damaging vehicles. Emergency officials were called at 8:25 a.m. local time to reports of a person being thrown from a horse in Buckingham Palace Road, and the first paramedic was on the scene within five minutes, according to a spokesperson for the London Ambulance Service.
It wasn't immediately clear what happened, but it appeared that seven horses bolted from their barracks in central London and ran wild. All the animals were contained shortly after."A number of military working horses became loose during routine exercise this morning," an Army spokesperson said."All of the horses have now been recovered and returned to camp.
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