webcam shows the pen is empty: http://www.skandavale.org/webcam/webcam.htm
Update at the Guardian:
7.20pm
The door on the pen has been partly removed by men in hard hats and the webcam now shows that Shambo has gone. BBC News 24 says he is being loaded onto the trailer, to the continuing sounds of chanting and bell-ringing in the background. That would appear to be the end of a very long, and somewhat unusual, day of events at Skanda Vale.
The Shambo saga finally appears to be very close to its end. Government officials have entered his pen and police have formed a human corrider to an animal trailer waiting nearby to take the bullock away for slaughter.
Struggling devotees at Skand Vale:
<img src='http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/ne/itn/20070726/16/2398641229-shambo-protesters-removed-hindu-temple-m.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<img src='http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/ne/itn/20070726/15/3660703903-shambo-arrests-hindu-temple-m.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Update at the Guardian:
7.20pm
The door on the pen has been partly removed by men in hard hats and the webcam now shows that Shambo has gone. BBC News 24 says he is being loaded onto the trailer, to the continuing sounds of chanting and bell-ringing in the background. That would appear to be the end of a very long, and somewhat unusual, day of events at Skanda Vale.
The Shambo saga finally appears to be very close to its end. Government officials have entered his pen and police have formed a human corrider to an animal trailer waiting nearby to take the bullock away for slaughter.
Struggling devotees at Skand Vale:
<img src='http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/ne/itn/20070726/16/2398641229-shambo-protesters-removed-hindu-temple-m.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<img src='http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/ne/itn/20070726/15/3660703903-shambo-arrests-hindu-temple-m.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />