Cows rescued from overturned lorry as motorway remains closed

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Pacemaker the underside of a lorry tin beryllium seen aft it overturned. determination are a fig of rescue workers connected apical of the lorry and lasting to its side. The country is surrounded successful greenish bushes, trees and agelong grass.

Cows person been rescued aft a livestock lorry overturned connected the M1 motorway connected Friday morning.

The occurrence work and 2 carnal rescue teams attended the scene, with 40 cattle progressive successful the incident.

David Doherty, country commandant for the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS), said the operator "is harmless and well" but the Department for Infrastructure said a tiny fig of cows person been enactment down.

Police said determination is nary timescale for reopening the motorway betwixt junctions 11 and 12 successful some directions.

Pacemaker Emergency services be the country of a clang connected the M1 motorway. An overturned lorry tin beryllium seen successful the region with a fig of occurrence appliances parked nearby. Another bluish livestock lorry is parked adjacent by the overturned lorry.

Mr Doherty told BBC Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show that 30 firefighters attended the country on with appliances from Dungannon, Portadown and Armagh.

He added that vets were astatine the country to measure the animals' payment alongside the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera).

The unrecorded cattle were placed into different lorry to beryllium transferred from the site.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said motorists travelling city-bound connected the M1 should permission the motorway astatine junction 15, the Moy Road roundabout, and question done Armagh earlier joining the M12 astatine Portadown.

The other applies to those travelling connected the country-bound lane.

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