Malmo: As if the Danish government’s rushed decision to cull and bury more than 10 million mink wasn’t a grisly enough story, thousands of the animals’ bloated cadavers have begun to re-emerge from shallow graves.
The phenomenon was reported by Denmark’s state broadcaster DR on Tuesday after carcasses were spotted popping up to the surface at a mass burial site at a military training field on Sunday.
“It is an extraordinary situation,” Thomas Kristensen, a press officer with Denmark’s National Police, which is responsible for the mink burials, told DR. “In connection with the decay, gasses form, which cause the whole thing to expand a little, and then in the worst case they get pushed out of the ground.”
Thousands of culled mink were buried at a military training ground near Holstebro in Denmark. Credit:NTB
The environment ministry, which is regulating the burials, said in a statement that the minks’ return from the grave was a “temporary problem tied to the animals’ decaying process”.
