Outpouring of disgust after brutal attack on endangered Gangetic dolphin in Uttar Pradesh went viral
Three men in India have been arrested after they were filmed brutally beating an endangered river dolphin to death in a video that went viral.
The attack, which happened on 31 December, involved a gang of young men violently hitting a Gangetic dolphin with wooden rods and an axe until it bled, and then suffocating the animal beneath the water of the Sharda canal in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.