Andhra Pradesh: 30 cattle starve to death in animal shelter

Many of the around 400 animals that survived were in a bad shape.

Around 30 cattle have starved to death at the Society for Prevention of Cruelty towards Animals (SPCA) shelter in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.

Officials said, while people are being killed in the name of cow protection, animals are facing human negligence.

Officials found decomposed carcasses rotting away in heaps of dung on the premises of SPCA on Wednesday, reports Hindustan Times. The officials recovered 14 carcasses of cattle believed to have died on Tuesday and four more cattle died on Wednesday.

Many of the around 400 animals that survived were in a bad shape. Twenty-two were moved to "safer locations" on Wednesday while some more were to be shifted out on Thursday.

Joint director of animal husbandry V Venkateshwar Rao said '10-12 cattle died earlier but the bodies seemed to have been removed by the organisers.'

Independent sources told HT that 11 animals died on Wednesday alone.

"There was no fodder and water at the center and the cattle have apparently been starving for quite some time," Rao said.

SPCA joint secretary Gopal R Surabathula admitted that 20 cattle died in the last few days but said officials were exaggerating the figures.

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