Zebra escapes from Korea zoo, runs around on Seoul streets | VIDEOS

The zebra named Sero had broken free from a zoo at the Seoul Children's Grand Park.

A zebra escaped from a zoo in the South Korean capital Seoul on Thursday and wandered the streets of a residential district for three hours before being caught and taken home.

Officials managed to trap the zebra, which escaped from a Seoul zoo, and gave it anesthetic muscle relaxants, (Twitter)

Bemused pedestrians looked on as the beast trotted past cars, wandered down a street and poked its nose in garbage bins, footage showed.

The zebra, named Sero, meaning vertical in Korean, had broken free from a zoo at the Seoul Children's Grand Park.

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Officials managed to trap the zebra and give it anesthetic muscle relaxants, Seoul Gwangjin Fire Station said. It was taken back to the zoo on the back of a pick-up truck, footage showed.

Video clips of Sero's day out went viral on social media.

"Literally a zebra crossing" one tweet read.