1.10 PM Tuesday, 19 March 2024
  • City Fajr Shuruq Duhr Asr Magrib Isha
  • Dubai 05:07 06:20 12:29 15:54 18:33 19:47
19 March 2024

2 cruelly kill horse in Saudi desert

Published
By Staff

Two Saudi men brutally killed a horse by shooting it in the belly before firing another bullet at its head as the animal lay on the sand bleeding.

A YouTube film showed one man held the horse by a leash while another with a gun shot it in the stomach.

The horse, feeling the bullet inside its abdomen, was seen walking dizzily on the sand before falling down.

A few seconds later, the man came near the horse and shot at its head, point blank. The animal jerked violently before it lay motionless in the sand.

It was the second horse-killing incident in Saudi Arabia in just two weeks. A YouTube film last month showed two men grabbing a horse and shooting it in the head.

The Saudi Arabic language daily 'Ajel', which published the second film on Saturday, did not say where in Saudi Arabia the incident took place. But it quoted readers as calling on authorities to identify the killers and punish them.

Experts said the two in the first incident might have killed the horse because it was suffering from a certain disease. But they said there was no explanation why the two men in the film below shot the horse in the belly apart from wanting to torture it.

The film appears to be so brutal that YouTube blocked it for users below a required age.