Overview
- A 22-year-old agricultural worker was attacked on a paddock in Sprakebüll and suffered life-threatening injuries during a work shift, according to police reports.
- Rescuers could not approach the victim because the mother cow repeatedly lowered its head and pawed the ground, and the air ambulance Christoph Europa 5 reported it could not land.
- Officers from Polizeistation Leck shot and killed the cow to remove the immediate danger, after which emergency teams recovered the man and flew him to a hospital in Hamburg.
- Police have described the animal's aggressive actions but have not identified a cause for the attack and have not reported further medical or investigative updates.
- Local coverage frames the case as a serious farm workplace accident and notes similar recent deadly cow attacks in the region that have drawn attention to animal safety on pastures.