It took a posse of police, border police and municipal employees in the coastal Israeli city of Acre to round up 10 stray horses Sunday.
Four of the horses’ owners were arrested when they clashed with police while trying to prevent the horses’ capture.
The animals had been roaming the streets, galloping wildly along the beach, endangering passersby. Their owners, who use the horses for pulling carts, had disregarded municipal orders to keep the animals corralled.
Horses are not the only living things that have been pestering local citizens. Residents of Acre report their lives have become unbearable, particularly at night, because of a plague of millions of oversized mosquitoes.
The onslaught has arisen because of the blocking of the estuary of the nearby heavily polluted Na’aman River, turning the region into a large, stagnant pool.
The situation was worsened over the weekend by high seas, which completely prevented the outflow of water.
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