A man was killed by a rooster with a blade tied to its leg during an illegal cockfight in southern India, police have said.
A man was killed by a rooster with a blade tied to its leg during an illegal cockfight in southern India, police have said. It brings focus on a practice that continues in some Indian states despite a decades-old ban. The rooster, with a 3in knife tied to its leg, fluttered in panic and slashed its owner,45-year-old Thangulla Satish, in his groin last week, police inspector B Jeevan said. The incident occurred in Lothunur village in Telangana state. According to Jeevan, Satish was injured while he prepared the rooster for a fight. “Satish was hit by the rooster’s knife in his groin and started bleeding heavily,” the officer said, adding that the man died on the way to hospital.
