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1,300 piglets rescued after Indiana highway crash

The piglets were headed to market but instead got a one-night reprieve at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.

By Amy R. Connolly
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INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Hundreds of piglets on the way to market were rescued from a semi that overturned on an interstate outside of Indianapolis. Some 700 pigs died as a result of the crash, but hundreds of others were saved.

The semi, traveling from North Carolina to Iowa to deliver the swine, flipped on Interstate 465 near Interstate 74, the Indiana State Police said. The truck was carrying 2,058 pigs. The driver was not seriously injured.

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The Wayne Township Fire Department was called to help release the trapped pigs. Video shows rescue workers cutting through the truck's metal roof and then crews moving the swine to safety.

The pigs were taken to the Indiana State Fairgrounds for the night and later transported to their final destination.

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