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  Injured tortoise fitted with wheels
Updated 07 August 2002, 11.55
 The tortoise on wheels
Picture courtesy of Reuters

A tortoise has been fitted with wheels after being hit by a bullet and losing the use of his back legs.

The 20-year-old reptile was hurt when there was a shoot-out in a town in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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His thick, bony shell couldn't protect it from the stray bullet and his owner couldn't afford his treatment.

But kind vets decided to help out for free and attached a pair of wheels from a television rack to his shell with sticky tape.

Now he's learning to walk, or roll, using his front feet to pull himself along.

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