Man drives off with dolphin stranded on Chinese beach
Suspect spotted hauling the stricken animal – a protected species – over his shoulder and driving off with it in his car, news website reports
Police are trying to trace a man filmed carrying off a dolphin that had got stranded on a beach in southern China.
The footage, filmed during China’s three-day labour holiday on May 1, was taken at Hailing Island – a popular tourist hotspot – in Guangdong province, the news website Btime.com reported.
The man in swimming shorts is shown in the video walking casually down the beach with the large dolphin over his shoulder and a woman following behind.
A local fishery authority official, whose full name was not given, told the website: “We received reports from witnesses saying there was a dolphin that had got stranded on the beach and looked like it was about to die when it was found.