Six decapitated baby seals found in New Zealand

‘Disturbing, brutal and violent’ crime reported to the police by New Zealand Department of Conservation

The bodies of six decapitated baby seals have been found in New Zealand.

New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) said the 11-month-old seals were found by a tourism operator floating in the tidal wash at Scenery Nook, a remote bay in the country’s Banks Peninsula near the town of Christchurch.

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