150 crows, three dogs have rice laced with poison, die in Nagapattinam

TNN | Apr 24, 2020, 04.49 AM IST

NAGAPATTINAM: Around 150 crows and three stray dogs died after eating poison-laced rice in a fishing village near Poompuhar in Nagapattinam district on Wednesday morning. Inquiries revealed that some villagers had kept the poison-laced rice on a roadside to kill stray dogs. Crows too ate them and died. The carcasses of the dogs and crows were found in in a fishing village near the harbour.

Two veterinary doctors performed postmortem on the carcasses of the dogs and some crows, which revealed that the dogs and crows died after consuming poison-laced rice. The Poompuhar police have registered a case. The carcasses were buried in a deep pit as per protocol. tnn