A man was killed by a rooster with a blade tied to its leg during an illegal cockfight.
According to authorities, the rooster was equipped with a 3-inch knife tied to its leg. It fluttered in panic and slashed its 45-year-old owner, Thangulla Satish.
“Satish was hit by the rooster’s knife in his groin and started bleeding heavily,” the police said, adding that the man died on the way to a hospital.
The police is also looking for more than a dozen people involved in organizing the cockfight. If arrested and found guilty, the organizers can face time behind bars.
Satish’s death follows a similar one that occurred last year when a man had his neck cut open by a blade attached to a rooster’s leg, and also another one on top of that back in 2010.
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