South Korean town rattled by wrong emergency alert over '70 large dogs' on the loose

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SEOUL — An emergency text message alerting residents of a rural South Korean town to watch out for 70 ferocious dogs on the loose had to be quickly withdrawn after it turned out only three canines had wandered off a farm in the area, officials said. The alert on May 8 from the Dong-gu district office in Daejeon followed a...

PHOTO: UnsplashSEOUL — An emergency text message alerting residents of a rural South Korean town to watch out for 70 ferocious dogs on the loose had to be quickly withdrawn after it turned out only three canines had wandered off a farm in the area, officials said.

"We were trying to get the word out for people to be cautious, since they said it was 70 large dogs," an official in the district south of the capital, Seoul, said by telephone. A second alert issued 20 minutes later said only three dogs had escaped from the farm and had been recovered.

 

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