mon 01 feb 2016, 07:20

Group of kangaroos intentionally hit by vehicles

BRISBANE –

In the east of Australia, near the city of Brisbane, has an unknown, a large number of kangaroos hit by vehicles. A berm along the road was Monday, about a hundred yards littered with corpses, sixteen in total. A seventeenth marsupial was, according to local media so severely injured that a syringe was the only solution.

According to the Australian animal protection society, the RSPCA, the perpetrator of the animals deliberately killed. Not only because of the large number of victims, but also because tire tracks in the grass were to be seen. The organization calls on local residents to help in the detection of the offender. Although in Australia often kangaroos are hit, it is the deliberate killing of such an animal is an offence.

Last year, in October, was an eighteen-year-old boy sued, who’s been accused of about a hundred kangaroos have also killed.