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Pig truck overturns in Bavaria – 700 animals dead
Hundreds of piglets died as a result of an accident. Photo: Boris Roessler/dpa/Symbolbild
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Tragic accident: According to the police, a pig transporter with 900 piglets in Lower Franconia got off the road and overturned. Around 550 animals died as a result of the accident – more had to be killed.
Around 700 piglets died on Tuesday after a pig transporter had an accident on Autobahn 3 in Bavaria. According to the police, there were around 900 animals in the truck. About 150 of them had to be killed after the accident because of their ailments, about 550 died beforehand as a result of the accident.
According to the police, the truck came off the road near Wiesentheid in Lower Franconia in the area of a construction site and overturned. The 34-year-old driver had probably lost control of the animal transporter due to a medical problem. He and his 42-year-old passenger were injured in hospitals.
The construction workers and firefighters prevented the 200 piglets that survived the accident from roaming the freeway. Because of the heat, the animals were cooled by the fire brigade with extinguishing water. Later, the pigs were loaded into a backup vehicle and taken away.