Giant Bird attack in Mos Eisley?

Date: 040909
Planet: Tatooine
Region: Mos Eisley

Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).

Mos Eisley is known to be a violent, very violent town, but usually all the violence is caused by sentients using weapons. Not so two days ago when what is reported as being a giant bird attacked a group of people leaving the Lucky Despot casino in Mos Eisley.

While details are not known several people reported that the animal - said to look like a giant peko-peko - was shot at with blasters and wounded several times before retreating into the desert.

Since Tatooine lacks native flying species in that size experts concluded that the animal was either imported, or the result of a mutation - or bioengineering. If it was a wild animal then its chances to survive blaster damage in the desert were estimated to be slim though some experts consider it more likely that it was a trained animal, and would therefore receive medical care by its handler.