Chicken died because of a boy's scream

Too frightened by the barking of a dog, the 4-year-old Chinese boy screamed for a long time, causing 443 chickens standing near him to trampled on each other and dying, a local newspaper reported yesterday.

This strange incident happened when the boy and his father went to the home of a person in Jiangsu Province to deliver gas cylinders.

A villager said the boy bent down to the chicken coop, shouting for a long time after hearing the barking of the dog. Others said they heard the boy crying all afternoon.

The court in Jiangsu Province ruled that it was his scream that scared 443 chickens, trampling on each other and dying. The owner of the chickens asked his father to pay 1,800 yuan (3,600,000 dong) for compensation.

HN