Animal rights activists in Mexico have demanded an official investigation into alleged cases of animal
torture
by street gangs carrying out initiation rituals. In a petition to the authorities in the city of Leon, they said one gang had beaten to death a pregnant dog and burnt a cat alive.
BBC News
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[00:01.01]BBC News with Sue Montgomery.
[00:04.54]Chinese state media say rescue teams are working to free 83 miners buried by a landslide near the Tibetan capital Lhasa.
[00:13.41]More than 1,000 emergency workers have been sent to the disaster site.
[00:17.59]Here’s Steve Jackson.
[00:19.16]The landslide described by Chinese media was on a huge scale spreading mud and rock over an area of 4 square kilometers.
[00:26.11]The missing miners were working for a subsidiary of a state-owned gold mining company at high altitude in a mountainous region.
[00:33.27]Many are believed to have been asleep when the landslide struck.
[00:36.57]Rescue teams with sniffer dogs have been searching for signs of life and dozens of excavators are reported to be digging through the debris.
[00:43.91]Local officials described the landslide as a natural disaster, although intensive mining activity has in the past been known to trigger such events.