TENNESSEE -(77WABC)- A rampaging camel from a Tennessee petting zoo attacked and killed two men Thursday afternoon, authorities report.

The Daily Mail  reports  the Obion County Sheriff’s Office announced on Friday that it had received reports of a camel on a loose that was attacking people at Shirley Farms Thursday afternoon.

In audio obtained by CBS News, a dispatcher could be heard reporting ‘two 911 calls of people being viciously attacked by a camel.’

The camel was later put down ‘for the safety of everyone on the scene,’ and Bobby Matheny, 42, and Tommy Gunn, 67, were pronounced dead.

The Obion County Sheriff’s Office said they first received received a call about a loose camel at Shirley Farms, on the site of The Pumpkin Barn, LLC, at around 4.44pm.

Officials from multiple agencies responded to the incident, and deputies who arrived on the scene immediately found two unconscious victims, as the camel remained on the loose, Sheriff Karl Jackson said on Friday.

Officers on the scene immediately tried to provide aid to the victims and move them to a safe place, he said, as the camel attacked an Obion County Sheriff’s Office vehicle.

It then moved towards the deputies, who were transferring a victim to EMS, at which point, Jackson said, ‘officers had to put the camel down for the safety of everyone on [the] scene.’

Shirley Farms told CBS News that they are ‘upset and grieving,’ but do not have any further comment at this time.