Saxony: Police officers save ducklings from Gully on the A72

Plauen (dpa / sn) - police officers rescued four ducklings from a gully at a motorway rest area on the A72. The patrol officers had discovered a visibly excited duck in the truck parking spaces at the Vogtland Nord rest area, the police said on Monday. The duck kept waddling around a manhole cover. When the police lifted the cover, they discovered four ducklings that had slipped through the slots in the manhole cover. After officers removed the chicks from the chute, they were returned to their mother ducks.