Several horses ran wild in central London on Wednesday. According to the Daily Mail, these are horses from the Household Cavalry, part of King Charles’s household troops.
Wednesday 24 April at 14:51– We are aware that several horses are at large in central London, says a spokesman for the London police to AFP.
According to the report, five people were injured in the incident Daily Mail.
ITV News has published video of two of the horses. Both it and pictures VG publishes for the case show that one of the horses has blood running down its body.
A witness to the incident on Buckingham Palace Road told the Telegraph newspaper that a horse ran straight into a parked car before galloping away. Bystanders screamed and ran as the animal charged towards them, witnesses claimed.
One of the horses has also run straight into a bus.
Scroll with the arrows in the photo gallery to see the runaway horses:
Photo: Jordan Pettitt / Pa Photos
Photo: Jordan Pettitt / Pa Photos
Photo: Jordan Pettitt / Pa Photos
Photo: Jordan Pettitt / Pa Photos
According to the tabloid Daily Mail, there are as many as five horses.
The riders were thrown off during an exercise in the Household Cavalry, the newspaper writes.
Furthermore, it is said that at least one soldier is injured. One of the horses ran that one horse ran into a two-story bus and that another collided with a taxi.
The newspaper later updated that five people were injured.
Passers-by reportedly heard a soldier cry out in pain after the horses ran into cars outside a hotel on Buckingham Palace Road.
According to the witnesses, the soldier fell off when the horse he was riding collided with the car.
The horses are said to have been frightened during their daily morning training at 8.40 on Wednesday morning.
The emergency services moved out and the injured soldier is receiving health care, writes the Daily Mail.
The police in Westminster, central London, write on X that all the horses have been accounted for.
– We are waiting for assistance from the army, the police wrote a little before 12 o’clock on Wednesday morning.
According to the Daily Mail, the horses ran close to 10 kilometers on the frantic journey through the center of London.
