3 dead cows wash up on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast

Another dead cow has washed up on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, the third dead cow in less than two weeks. Source: Nova.bg, a Bulgarian TV channel Details: The first dead cow was found on the coast in the Tsarevo municipality on 6 June.

The second one was found several days later in the vicinity of the city of Chernomorets. That was also where the third cow washed up on 15 June. The first of the cows could not have been carried by currents from flooded Kherson Oblast, since it was found on the same day that Russia blew up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP).

However, the other two animals could have been carried by the sea from Ukraine, since Bulgarian government agencies reported that the cows did not have the special marking on their ears which cattle in the EU typically does.

The distance between the Bulgarian municipalities where the cows had washed up and the mouth of the Dnipro River is 570-600 kilometres. The mayor of Chernomorets said that the cows could have ended up in the sea as a result of an incident with a cattle-carrying ship. However, no such incidents are known to have occurred in the Black Sea.

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Previously: Moldova's National Agency For Public Health is concerned with the possibility of disease outbreaks following the Kakhovka HPP explosion.

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