June 2, 2004

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  Police car siren killed chickens

  
  

  A farmer in western China has sued police after a squad car siren scared 435 of his chickens to death.

  
  

  The siren went off just 10 metres from the chickens at the farm in Huxian, Shaanxi province.

  
  

  Thirty five of the birds died on the spot and another 400 died later of shock, says the Procuratorate Daily newspaper.

  
  

  A court ordered the police to compensate the farmer for the 35 chickens that died first, but said it couldn’t be proved they were to blame for the other deaths.

  
  

   

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