Stop, there's a zebra crossing! Escaped beast roams Seoul streets

The zebra escaped after breaking the wooden fencing around his pen, according to the Gwangjin station. - NETIZENBUZZ/TWITTER

SEOUL (Reuters): A zebra escaped from a zoo in the South Korean capital Seoul on Thursday (March 23) and wandered the streets of a residential district for three hours before being caught and taken home.

Bemused pedestrians looked on as the beast trotted past cars, wandered down a street and poked its nose in garbage bins, footage showed.