Marilyn Thipthorpe
A camel in a village in western India bit off the head of its owner after it spent the whole day tied up in the scorching sun.
The incident reportedly happened in Barmer district of the state of Rajasthan where the camel was tied near the owner’s house. The owner, busy entertaining guests, forgot to untie the animal till later in the night. However, when he approached the camel,it attacked him, severing his head. “The animal lifted him by the neck and threw him on to the ground, chewed the body and severed the head,” Thakara Ram, a resident of the same village said.
It took 25 villagers and six hours to calm the animal down and take away the dismembered body of the owner. Neighbors informed the newspaper that the animal had attacked the man on other occasions as well.
Temperatures in the north and north-western India have broken all past records, and on the day the incident occurred, Barmer registered a peak temperature of 43°C.