More than 200 sheep have died after a livestock lorry overturned in Dumfries and Galloway, in the south of Scotland.
Police were called out to the A76 near Enterkinfoot last night after reports that a Wm Armstrong livestock haulage vehicle was on its side in a field, the BBC reports.
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