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Chicks' massacre at Brussels airport

20 thousand ones killed with gas due to a transport problem

Controversy in Belgium where a technical problem caused the death of 20 thousand chicks at Brussels airport.A container used for the transport of animals should have been loaded on board an aircraft bound for Kinshasa, Congo. The departure of the airplane however has been postponed twice due to technical problems and the dumpster was left on the asphalt under the sun all week-end. According to local...

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Brussels, Belgium, 05/09/2018 08:19
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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These animals were in the cargo terminal

A very bad discovery: according to what has been reported in recent hours by the Spanish police, 23,000 dead chicks were found in one of the cargo terminals at "Adolfo Suárez" airport in Madrid-Barajas,... more

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