Trapped cows rescued from slurry pit near Gillingham

A technical rescue team from Poole fire station used an an inflatable raft to reach the stricken cows

Two cows have been pulled from a slurry pit by firefighters.

Crews were called to the site at Silton, near Gillingham, Dorset, after the pair were found stranded on Sunday at about 10:00 GMT.

An inflatable raft was used to reach the heifers before one was lifted from the pit with rescue equipment, the other with the help of farm machinery.

Crews spent more than three hours helping the animals before leaving them in the care of the farmer.

Farm machinery was used to pull one of the young cows out of the pit

It is the third time in just over a month that firefighters have rescued cows stuck in farm slurry pits in Dorset.

Crews saved six animals that had fallen through an inspection cover on a farm near Tolpuddle and just over a week later two cows were helped near Wimborne.

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