Published on May 5, 2020
New footage shows bats, rats and dogs for sale at an Indonesian wet market.
It remains open despite a wet market in the Chinese city of Wuhan being linked to the coronavirus outbreak.
Video taken at the Tomohon Traditional Market in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, shows butchers carving up animals in the open and customers free to roam through the crowds.
Indonesia’s health ministry confirmed 11, 587 people had tested positive to COVID-19 in the south-east Asian country, with a death toll of 864.
One particularly gruesome clips shows bats being sliced up by a butcher in as a customer watches on.
Elsewhere piles of rats and whole dogs sit on benches in the market on display while whole snakes hang from the ceiling.
According to local journalist Agung Maupa, who took the footage on May 2, such animals remain in high demand despite the coronavirus pandemic.
He added that the local market “is still full of people” and busiest on Saturdays.
Horrifying footage shows bats, rats and dogs on sale at Indonesian wet market despite fears they caused coronavirus
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