Wild horses found shot dead in Canada

Canadian constabulary said they are investigating the suspicious decease of 17 chaotic horses successful British Columbia.

The horses look to person been changeable and killed adjacent the Kamloops area, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RMCP) said.

The horses are of taste value to the section Skeetchestn indigenous band, the constabulary said.

The RCMP has launched an probe into the incident. A motive has not been identified.

Tk'emlups Rural RCMP said they received a study connected Friday of respective horses that were killed connected Crown onshore that is owned by the state of British Columbia, adjacent the tiny assemblage of Walhachin, astir 65 km (40 miles) westbound of Kamloops.

"Investigators were led to the circumstantial location, wherever it was confirmed 17 horses had precocious been shot," RCMP Cpl James Grandy said successful a quality release.

"They appeared to beryllium from a herd of feral (wild) horses which predominant this area," helium said.

Police deployed a forensics team, a veterinarian and an RCMP livestock researcher to analyse the scene.

"It's truly hard terrain," Cpl Lepine said. "It's not travelled much."

Police person urged anyone with accusation to travel forward, arsenic a motive has not yet been identified.

"The motive down this disheartening enactment cannot beryllium confirmed astatine this point," Cpl Grandy said. "However, investigators volition proceed to cod and analyse everything available."