Co Tyrone: Family find dead lambs in bag on country road

Warning: this article contains distressing images. A seven-year-old boy was left distraught after he found a number of dead lambs in a bag while out litter-picking with his family. Ursula Bradley, the boy's mother, said he was upset by the discovery. "He had a lot of questions - as a parent that was really hard," she said. As well as the bag containing the lambs, the decomposed carcasses of several other animals were also found in hedges and ditches nearby. The lambs were found on a country road near the village of Cappagh in County Tyrone. "We found two more dead lambs on the same road, it's the last thing you expect to find, it was awful for someone to dump them like that," Bradley said. "There are a lot of families that walk these roads and my son was very upset that night, he was asking what he could do for the lambs, it was very upsetting." In a statement, Mid Ulster District Council said it was made aware of the incident and had contacted the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera). Daera confirmed that the case has been investigated by staff from the local veterinary office, but said "the lambs were untagged and therefore the keeper of the animals c