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Rooster fitted with knife kills owner during cockfight

Cockfighting has been banned in India since 1960 [Photo: Courtesy]

A rooster fitted with a three-inch knife for an illegal cockfight killed its owner as it tried to escape his grasp.

The bird was struggling to break free when the blade, strapped to one of its legs, slashed the 45-year-old man's groin before a fight in the village of Lothunur in India's southern Telangana state.

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