Police investigating an incident in which dozens of dead animals were dumped outside a Hampshire shop have found a burnt out Suzuki Grand Vitara believed to be linked to the case.
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Hampshire Police has urged the public to send any CCTV or dash cam images of cars matching this description in the Test Valley area at the time of the incident.
“Officers are following all possible lines of enquiry and will be in the area today to provide reassurance to local residents,” the force said in a statement.
The bodies of around 50 dead hares were discovered by a member of staff who had gone to open up Broughton Community Shop on Friday.
“It was bedlam, it was just covered in dead hares, all the way across this paving here, horrifying,” the shop’s treasurer Mike Hensman told Sky News.
“And on the door there was a dead raptor, bird of prey, and an owl impaled on the door handles. And there was blood everywhere.”
He described how shocked staff and villagers had to remove the remains.
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