Man injured in cow attack

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A man has been injured after he was attacked by a cow this afternoon

The 50-year-old man was chased by a cow before falling down a three-metre bank, reported the Dominion Post.

He injured his ribs when he landed on a tree stump at the bottom of the bank in Whareama, north of Riversdale on the Wairarapa coast.

The Westpac rescue helicopter flew him to Wellington Hospital.

Life Flight crewman Logan Taylor told the Dominion Post the man was herding cows on his property when the accident happened.

"I believe he was trying to herd a cow with a calf, and the cow turned on him and chased him, and as he was being chased he fell down a bank."

Earlier this month a 64-year-old man was injured when he was pinned to the ground, stomped and headbutted by a cow on a Coromandel farm, just two hours after a 47-year-old woman was attacked by a cow on a Dannevirke dairy farm.

- HERALD ONLINE