Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
Pigs on farm
Pigs on farm - Credit: taxzi / DepositPhotos - License: DepositPhotos
Weird
1-1-2
pigs farm
Nunspeet
Gelderland
accident
slurry pit
fire brigade
Sunday, 7 March 2021 - 12:20
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

90 pigs stuck in slurry pit, several did not make it out

About ninety pigs ended up in a slurry pit on a farm in Nunspeet (Gelderland). Several animals did not survive. The fire brigade does not yet know how many exactly.

At around 10.30 pm on Saturday, the fire brigade was still trying to save the last animals. The fire brigade was alerted at 4.45 pm. "And after six o'clock, we are still busy," said a spokesperson. "The animals, which weigh up to 130 kilos, were in a 1.5 meter deep well. They cannot get out of it themselves."

The spokesperson could not yet say what the cause was. "But we see more often that the grids above the wells are affected by the gases. After a few years, this can become so bad that the animals sink through it," said the spokesperson. "We don't know yet whether that happened here, it is one of the possibilities."

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Third victim, a 14-year-old girl, dies from injuries in Rotterdam shootings
  • Schiphol Airport to cut 12,400 flight movements next summer
  • Two killed, teen critically injured in Rotterdam shootings; Suspect a med student
  • Suspect arrested in Erasmus hospital shooting and fires; At least one dead
  • Two injured in Erasmus hospital shooting; Suspect on the run
  • AH stabbing suspect said the victim was in the wrong place at the wrong time

Top stories

  • Third victim, a 14-year-old girl, dies from injuries in Rotterdam shootings
  • Two killed, teen critically injured in Rotterdam shootings; Suspect a med student
  • Suspect arrested in Erasmus hospital shooting and fires; At least one dead
  • Two injured in Erasmus hospital shooting; Suspect on the run
  • Amsterdam announces sharp increase in tourist tax for hotel rooms, cruise passengers
  • 71-year-old man stabbed, beaten to death by group in Rotterdam

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content