Pigs Rescued From Floods

Rescuers save sixty pigs from a flooded Chinese town. Local media reported that some three to six-thousand helpless hogs seemed doomed to be stuck in their pens as water pooled up to their snouts. Epidemic prevention measures and sanitation rules prohibited farmers from releasing them into the wild. Photographs of the farmer bidding a heartbreaking goodbye to his swine quickly went viral after being shared by local media and appearing on Chinese microblogging site WEIBO. A team of 50 to 60 people was deployed to move the pigs to dry land once news of the barn animals’ plight was known.