Blood in the streets
It’s been raining in Dhaka, and it’s Eid, so the streets are full of rainwater mixed with blood and animal waste.
The holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of Muslims, is being celebrated in Dhaka and elsewhere across the country amid light to moderate rains in the capital and at different places in the country.
The continuous downpour has caused waterlogging at different areas in the capital, resulting in the animal blood and wastes being spread in the water, submerging the streets.
Bulbul Ahsan posted some photos he took:
Not good.
That definitely looks like a health hazard.
Ya think?
The slaughter of animals during Eid al Adha is horrific.Many of the animals whose blood coloured the floodwaters, were likely to have been massacred in backyards or even in the streets.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/dhaka-eid-al-adha-bangladesh-animal-sacrifice/1/763623.html
And here are some amateur slaughterers trying to kill cows in the streets of Gaza. (Trigger warning: not for the faint-hearted.)
http://www.palpress.co.uk/arabic/?Action=Details&ID=122072
In case you were wondering, some of the commenters, horrified by the spectacle, questioned the religious pupose of this slaughter.