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| Serbian Prison Officers Shoot Dogs for Failing to Notice Escape |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/03/2003 |
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Officer in a prison in northern Serbia shot and killed two watch dogs as punishment for not alerting them when five inmates escaped, a newspaper reported Saturday. The two dogs failed to bark as they had been trained to when five inmates dug a channel underneath a prison wall and escaped earlier this month, the Gradjanski List daily reported. The report did not say where the officers were at the time of the escape. Three of the convicts were later captured while two remain at large, an embarrassment for the prison authorities in Sombor, 150 kilometers northwest of capital Belgrade. The shooting of the dogs, both 15 years old, triggered protests by animal rights activists. 'The dogs did not deserve death penalty and certainly were not the most responsible for the escape,' said Branka Pasko, an activist in Arka, an animal rights group based in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad. 'The dogs could have been sent into retirement' or put to sleep with an injection 'without pain and suffering,' Pasko was quoted as saying. A duty officer at the Sombor prison reached by The Associated Press recently declined to comment. |
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