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Nearly 6,000 dead pigs found in China river

2013-03-13 48 Dailymotion

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL<br/> <br />Nearly 6,000 dead pigs have now been fished out of a Chinese river, which provides drinking water to Shanghai.<br/> <br />Workers on the Huangpu River have found over 5,900 pigs since Friday (March 8).<br/> <br />Ear tags suggest they come from upstream in Jiaxing City.<br/> <br />Officials there caution that the tags indicate birthplace, and not necessarily where the pigs was farmed.<br/> <br />rather than where the pigs were farmed.<br/> <br />This sign in a pig-rearing city district, says the area for dead livestock is full.<br/> <br />Jiang Hao is from the area's animal bureau.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND VETERINARY BUREAU OF JIAXING CITY, JIANG HAO, SAYING:<br/> <br />"When some farmers raise pigs and see pigs dying, they will think it's a kind of bad luck. And then they have a bad reaction, which is to throw them away carelessly, and the pigs can end up somewhere they shouldn't have."<br/> <br />Chinese state media says

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