Some horses at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh’s top tourist destination, are starving to death because owners are not able to buy enough food for them. — AFP
More than 20 horses have died of starvation in just one month at Bangladesh’s most popular resort district, the animals’ owners said recently, as the country’s tourism industry reels from the pandemic’s economic fallout.
The South Asian nation of 168 million people is battling a fresh wave of coronavirus infections that has stretched its healthcare system and triggered a nationwide lockdown.
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