Forest Service confirms more wild horse deaths, some shot

摘要

Forest Service officials confirm that seven more wild horses have been found dead in eastern Arizona aftereight others were found earlier this month, and said at least some were shot."Several horses died due to bullet wounds," but other carcasses were too badly decomposed to determinethe cause of death, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests officials said in a statement Friday.An Apache-Sitgreaves spokesman did not immediately respond Saturday to a query from the AssociatedPress.The statement said the 15 carcasses were found in a ranger district headquartered in Heber-Overgaard, arural community 109 miles northeast of Phoenix.