Eluru Jan 16 (UNI) In a freak incident, a punter was killed when he suffered a deep stab injury when the sharp edged blade of a rooster pierced into his abdomen at Pragadavaram village in Chintalpudi mandal in West Godavari district on Wednesday night.
Police said that the cockfight organisers tied a sharp edged blade to the leg of a cock. An organiser held the rooster in his hands and waiting to release it into the arena for fight.
The rooster suddenly fluttered powerfully in a bid to escape from his hands, resulting the sharp edged blade of the rooster pierced into the abdomen of a punter, Saripalli Venkateswara Rao (55), who stood very near to the rooster. He suffered grievous bleeding injury in the incident.