Hindus Perform Largest Mass Animal Sacrifice in the World
In what has been said to be the world's largest animal sacrifice, Hindus attended the Gadhimai festival on the 24th of this month in southern Nepal and slaughtered thousands of animals. The "festival" is held every five years to appease the Hindu goddess of power.
On Tuesday 250 sword-wielding butchers slaughtered around 20,000 buffalo, while the following day hundreds of thousands of people offered smaller animals to Gadhimai.
Priests said at least 150,000 goats, roosters, ducks and pigeons were sacrificed at the temple, and thousands more were killed in surrounding fields.
As shown in the Reuters video below, the temple grounds were filled with carnage of the slaughtered animals.
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