River puzzle: dead pigs
Source: Xinhua |
March 19, 2010, Friday
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AGRICULTURE authorities in east China are investigating how at least 550 dead pigs ended up in the estuary of the Qiantang River in Zhejiang Province over the past week.
The pig carcasses began to appear in the lower reaches of the river on March 9, said Huang Haizhen, manager of a company in charge of clearing the waterway.
On Wednesday alone, workers retrieved 20 dead piglets from the water, she said.
The carcasses had been buried in pits about 5 meters deep as soon as they were recovered and the company had reported the situation to local agricultural and stockbreeding authorities.
Fu Xianhua, an official with the agricultural bureau of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang, said experts and officials were on their way to the upper reaches of the river to investigate where the pigs came from.
The pigs were washed down from the upper reaches of the river, along which some regions had suffered serious spring floods this year, and many pigs might have been drowned, he said.
The pig carcasses began to appear in the lower reaches of the river on March 9, said Huang Haizhen, manager of a company in charge of clearing the waterway.
On Wednesday alone, workers retrieved 20 dead piglets from the water, she said.
The carcasses had been buried in pits about 5 meters deep as soon as they were recovered and the company had reported the situation to local agricultural and stockbreeding authorities.
Fu Xianhua, an official with the agricultural bureau of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang, said experts and officials were on their way to the upper reaches of the river to investigate where the pigs came from.
The pigs were washed down from the upper reaches of the river, along which some regions had suffered serious spring floods this year, and many pigs might have been drowned, he said.
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