An Indian man was stabbed to death by his own rooster after attaching a 3-inch knife to his leg for an illegal cockfight, police said on Sunday.
Thangulla Satish, 45, was stabbed in the groin last week when the bird he had just armed for the fight fluttered in panic, according to police in the village of Lothunur, Telangana state.
“Satish was hit by the rooster knife in his groin and started to bleed profusely,” Police Inspector B. Jeevan said on Sunday, revealing that the victim died on the way to a local hospital.
Police are now looking for more than a dozen other people involved in staging the deadly cockfight and are warning they could face up to two years in prison if found guilty.
The rooster survived, with photos of him tied with a rope and pecking on grains at the police station went viral on social media locally.
“Maybe we should show it to court,” Jeevan said.
In the fighting – banned in India in 1960 – two birds fight with a knife or knife attached to it until one dies or flees.
Despite the nationwide ban, they remain common in the South Indian states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, often overseen by powerful, local politicians with big bets.
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