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Goat falls on man, bull tramples boys, butchers stab each other: Dozens of injuries reported on Turkey’s Feast of Sacrifice
Goat falls on man, bull tramples boys, butchers stab each other: Dozens of injuries reported on Turkey’s Feast of Sacrifice
As Turkey celebrated the first day of the Feast of Sacrifice, dozens of people were injured, as some were hit by a goat, trampled by a bull or intentionally stabbed by another amateur butcher. Click through for the story in photos...
Millions of animals were sacrificed in Turkey on Aug. 21, marking the start of the Islamic feast, also known as Eid al-Adha.
With rejoice and gratitude came clumsiness and anger, leading to familiar scenes in which citizens insisted on sacrificing their own animals instead of hiring a butcher, leading to injuries.
A goat in the western province of Bursa ran away the moment it was about to be sacrificed in the garden of a house. It went up the third floor of the house, where it jumped off and landed on a 50-year-old resident, Mehmet Sıttık Karakaş. The man’s skull was broken in two places but the goat was eventually sacrificed.
A bull in the southern province of Antalya was on the run for four hours during which it trampled its owner’s sons.
“We wanted to eat it but he was about to eat us. Both of my sons have been injured,” Selahattin Akdağ was quoted as saying by local media.
An amateur butcher in the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir managed to cut his own leg while trying to sacrifice an animal. When he saw journalists waiting at the city hospital’s emergency room, the man jokingly tried to mislead them, claiming his leg had been hit by “a helicopter propeller.”
“I have been making fun of people who injure themselves while sacrificing an animal. Now, I am one of them,” he said later, according to local media.
Meanwhile in Istanbul, a cow escaped and fell from 10 meters into a dried canal with its owner.
The man, whose leg was broken, was hospitalized and the cow was sacrificed on the spot.
Even when the animals behave, people have found other means to injure themselves.
Two amateur butchers stabbed each other in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa after they argued over who would be hired by a customer to sacrifice several animals. Both men were hospitalized and their injuries were not life threatening, reports said.
From a ram in the Turkish capital Ankara to a calf in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, dozens of sacrificial animals were reportedly on the run on Aug. 21, some of them for several hours.
In the end, this year animals had fewer chances to save their lives, as officials were armed not only with tranquilizer guns, but also with drones to track, catch and return them to their owners.
Despite repeated warnings from authorities, many people slaughtered animals in open spaces.
Here are more photos from Anadolu Agency and Demirören Agency...
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