Worker Arrested After Horse Stabbed at Stable
An African worker has been arrested after CCTV footage showed him heartlessly stabbing a horse with a knife and hurling stones at others at a stable in the Northern Governorate, according to the Bahrain Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Society chairman Mahmoud Faraj said the stable keeper filed a report with Hamad Town Police Station at Roundabout 18 after the footage was found.
Police attended the stable and arrested the African worker, who is due to be referred to the Public Prosecution for legal action, Mr Faraj said.
The case came to light after the stable keeper found another horse suffering from a stab wound and checked security camera recordings from the site.
Mr Faraj told The Daily Tribune that the footage showed the worker stabbing the animal with a knife and throwing stones at other horses.
Days earlier, the stable keeper had found a filly dead after leaving it with its mother the night before in apparently normal condition. No clear cause of death was known.
No security cameras covered the part of the stable where the young horse had been kept, meaning there was no footage to show what happened to it, Mr Faraj said. No link between its death and the worker has been established.
He said the recordings were key to uncovering the attack on the other horse and urged stable owners to install cameras in areas where animals are kept to help deter abuse and record any harm.
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