Frankfurt, Jan 28, (dpa/GNA) – Some 500 pigs have died in a fire at a feedyard, in south-western Germany.
There were a total of around 900 animals in the barn in the town of Riedstadt in the Gross-Gerau district to the south of Frankfurt, the police said on Tuesday.
“Some of the animals that survived had to be put down at the scene of the fire,” said a police spokesman.
The reason why the fire, which has now been extinguished, broke out on Monday evening was initially unclear, the spokesman said.
The property damage has been estimated as several hundred thousand euros, according to the information.
GNA