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UMERKOT: A camel with all four of its legs amputated was found lying dead at the Morjhango turn near Kunri tehsil in rural Sindh.
The camel, according to videos received by Geo News, was seen lying motionless in the middle of a street in the locality.
According to the owner, Abdul Rashid, the camel was sick and went to graze a day earlier.
“[We] don’t want to accuse anyone,” the owner told Geo News, adding that he is trying to get information regarding the matter.
“I have around 40 to 45 female camels. While all of them returned after grazing last evening, she was left behind alone,” he said.
The owner added: “God knows who made her run, beat her and cut her legs. We don’t know anything yet… we’ll see what to do next.”
Abdul Rashid said he found out about the incident this morning and that the police also arrived at the site.
While it is early to state whether this is another case of animal cruelty, it is a second distressing event involving a camel in the past couple of weeks.
Ahead of Eid-ul-Adha on June 14, a landlord, along with his employees, physically tortured a camel for straying into his land for fodder, amputating one of its legs as punishment in Sanghar’s Mundh Jamrao area.
The incident’s video went viral on social media with thousands of people condemning the brutal action.
In the wake of the incident and reaction of the public, raising voice against animal cruelty, authorities sprung into action and arrested those involved in the torture.
Following the action, a court in Sanghar sent at least six suspects on physical remand for two days on June 20.
On June 15, the victim camel was shifted to Karachi and since then it is being treated and taken care of by a non-governmental organisation for its rehabilitation. The organisation named the camel, Cammie.
After being promised an artificial leg, the wounded camel was also provided a structure with a harness to make it stand up earlier this week.
A team from Bioniks Pakistan, a prosthetics manufacturing company overlooking the preparation of the camel’s artificial limb, set up the structure.
