Third horse rescued in Kentucky where 20 others were killed

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A third horse has been rescued from a strip mine whine in Kentucky where 20 horses had been realized fatally shot

January 14, 2020, 1: 54 AM

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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — A third horse has been rescued from a strip mine whine in Kentucky where 20 horses had been realized fatally shot.

The filly turn into as soon as captured by Dumas Rescue on Saturday and taken to the Kentucky Humane Society, news outlets reported.

The horse is believed to be the daughter of the pregnant mare and sister to the colt who turn into as soon as rescued in late December.

In a six-day span, 20 horses had been realized dead along U.S. 23 shut to the Floyd-Pike County line within the eastern piece of the whine. Tonya Conn with Dumas Rescue has said that the dead horses had been scattered over a fleshy space and it looks they’d been hunted.

“Right here’s very inhumane and it’s a really merciless act of someone who unbiased it looks had nothing else to attain or no topic unbiased to lunge assist on a strip job and shoot down horses,” Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt previously said. “It seemed love a battlefield for unbiased horses.”

Authorities said a few of the most horses had been younger and some had been pregnant.

Kentucky Humane Society President Lori Redmon said there are three further surviving horses shut to the strip mine. Dumas Rescue turn into as soon as moreover going to select them on Saturday nonetheless the horses had been spooked when any individual shot an automatic rifle within the space, Redmon said.

“They bear no longer appear to contain any injuries, so we bear no longer indubitably know the intention they escaped that. For any individual to contain shot 20 horses, it wasn’t unbiased a transient, random downside,” Redmon said. “This turn into as soon as intended malice to a fleshy extent. So for them to proceed to lift capturing till 20 horses had been dead unbiased feels to find it irresistible’s pure nefarious.”

There is now a $23,000 reward for knowledge resulting within the arrest of anybody accountable for capturing the horses.

Prestonburg is ready 115 miles (185 kilometers) east of Lexington in an Appalachian space shut to the whine traces of Virginia and West Virginia.


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