{"id":67559,"date":"2020-10-29T04:19:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T04:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=67559"},"modified":"2020-10-29T04:19:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T04:19:32","slug":"fighting-cock-kills-police-chief-philippine-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=67559","title":{"rendered":"Fighting cock kills police chief in Philippine raid"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Philippine police officer was killed during a raid on an illegal cockfight after a rooster’s blade sliced his femoral artery, an official said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Cockfighting is a popular blood sport in the archipelago where money is bet on the outcome of a fight — often to the death — between two colourful birds armed with bladed spurs.<\/p>\n

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It has been banned along with other sporting and cultural events during the coronavirus pandemic to prevent large crowds from gathering and spreading the contagion.<\/p>\n

Monday’s freak accident in the central province of Northern Samar happened when Lieutenant Christian Bolok picked up a fighting cock as he gathered evidence of the unlawful event.<\/p>\n

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Its blade struck his left thigh and he bled to death, provincial police chief Colonel Arnel Apud told AFP.<\/p>\n

“It was an unfortunate accident and a piece of bad luck that I cannot explain,” Apud said.<\/p>\n

“I could not believe it when it was first reported to me. This is the first time in my 25 years as a policeman that I lost a man due to a fighting cock’s spur.”<\/p>\n

Three people were arrested and two fighting cocks seized along with two sets of spurs in the raid in San Jose town where Bolok was the police chief, Apud added.<\/p>\n

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