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The animal, weighing more than a ton, was run over on the highway that connects Bogotá to Medellín, in an area close to a property belonging to Pablo Escobar, the commander of the fire department of the municipality of Puerto Triunfo, in the department of Antioquia (northwest).
The front of the truck involved in the accident was destroyed, but the driver escaped unharmed.
At the height of his criminal empire, Escobar built a zoo on his 3,000-hectare ranch in Puerto Triunfo.
The famous drug trafficker imported exotic animals from all over the world to the place, causing an impact due to the extravagance of the property, where he installed a small plane at the entrance gate that symbolized the means of transport of his shipments of cocaine to the United States.
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