HINDU worshippers are beheading thousands of buffalo in Nepal as part of the “world’s largest animal sacrifice” event.
The Gadhimai festival started in the early hours of this morning as a priest killed a goat, rat, chicken, pig and pigeon and then offered blood from his own body.
Around 200 butchers wielding curved kukri knives then descended on a walled temple arena containing around 3,500 buffalo to behead the animals.