Dolphin dies after China tourist abuse: Report BEIJING (AFP) - A dolphin has died in China after tourists hoisted it out of the water to pose with it for photographs, state media said on Tuesday, provoking outrage online. Images posted online showed a group of tourists manhandling the grey creature, which washed ashore on a beach on Sunday in the southern Chinese province of Hainan, the state-run Shanghai Daily reported, adding that it later died of "excessive bleeding". The dolphin might have collided with a fishing boat before it became stranded, the paper quoted an expert as saying. But instead of trying to help the distressed animal, a crowd of bathers gathered in the water to pose with it, images posted online showed. Several men lifted the dolphin above the water as one of them flexed his muscles for the camera. Copyright © 2013 Singapore Press Holdings. All rights reserved.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:25:08 +0000
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