Outrage after 42,000 chickens drown on a farm in Spain's Andalucia after being struck by DANA storm

ANIMAL activists are in uproar after 42,000 chickens drowned on a farm in Andalucia during the deadly DANA this week.

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The horror incident took place on a poultry farm near Dolar, Granada, when the storm passed through the Guadix region on Tuesday.

Sources from the Granada Provincial Council said the farm’s workers entered the chick coup at around midday to discover they had all drowned due to the rains flooding the building.

Animal rights group PACMA lamented the deaths on social media.

They wrote: Yesterday 42,000 chickens drowned on an agricultural farm in Dolar (Granada) after the passage of DANA.

“42,000 lives suffered an agonising death from living exploited and locked up.

“They are not numbers, they are living beings. Don’t be an accomplice to this. Go vegan.”

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
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He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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