1500 sheep jump off a cliff and this doesn't become the biggest news story in England? The end is nigh...
Nearly 1,500 Sheep Jump Off Cliff in Turkey
About 450 Are Killed, Cushioning the Fall for the Rest
AP
Turkish shepherds look at dead sheep in the town of Gevas in eastern Turkey.
ISTANBUL, Turkey (July
- First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported.
In the end, 450 dead animals lay on top of one another in a billowy white pile, the Aksam newspaper said. Those who jumped later were saved as the pile got higher and the fall more cushioned, Aksam reported.
"There's nothing we can do. They're all wasted," Nevzat Bayhan, a member of one of 26 families whose sheep were grazing together in the herd, was quoted as saying by Aksam.
The estimated loss to families in the town of Gevas, located in Van province in eastern Turkey, tops $100,000, a significant amount of money in a country where average GDP per head is around $2,700.
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