CHINA: Ban On Live Animals, Passenger Kills Duck At Train Station

A Chinese woman cut the throat of a duck she was carrying in front of startled passengers at a train station after hearing live animals could not be taken on board, mainland media reports.

The woman, who is in her 20s, waited until the duck had bled to death at the security checkpoint at the station before climbing onto the train in Chengdu.

The duck was being carried inside the woman’s handbag with just its head and neck sticking out, the report said.

The woman was told that all live animals, apart from guide dogs, were banned from being taken onto trains.

So she borrowed a knife from another passenger and, after putting a newspaper on the floor to soak up the blood slit the duck’s throat.

Her behaviour upset other passengers, according to one witness who shared photographs of the incident on social media platform weibo.com.

An official at the train station later confirmed the story.

“Butchering a duck in public area is definitely inappropriate,” a station manager was quoted as saying.

Station security staff should have stopped the woman, but failed to do so, the manager said.

Improvements would also be made so that such an incident could not happen again, the manager said.