KARACHI: Unidentified suspects this week chopped the leg of a camel in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province and prompted an inquiry by the chief minister, with rights activists describing the incident as absolutely horrific.
The incident took place in Sindh’s Sukkur on Thursday and came a little more than a year after a similar incident in which a local landlord in Sindh’s Sanghar district allegedly chopped off a camel’s leg as punishment for daring to venture into his field.
While police are still hunting the suspects who cut off the camel’s leg, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah directed local officials in Sukkur to get the animal treated and submit a report to him.
“Such treatment of speechless animals will not be tolerated under any circumstances,” Shah said in a statement, seeking a report into the incident.
The development comes months after Cammie, the young camel whose leg was chopped off in Sanghar last year, left her caregivers emotional as she walked for the first time on a prosthetic leg.
