BEIJING (AFP) - A dolphin has died in China after tourists
hoisted it out of the water to pose with it for photographs, state
media said on Tuesday, provoking outrage online.
Images posted online showed a group of tourists manhandling the
grey creature, which washed ashore on a beach on Sunday in the
southern Chinese province of Hainan, the state-run Shanghai Daily
reported, adding that it later died of "excessive bleeding".
The dolphin might have collided with a fishing boat before it
became stranded, the paper quoted an expert as saying.
But instead of trying to help the distressed animal, a crowd of
bathers gathered in the water to pose with it, images posted online
showed. Several men lifted the dolphin above the water as one of
them flexed his muscles for the camera.
Source:
http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/asia/story/dolphin-dies-after-china-tourist-abuse-report-20130618
