In a strange incident of animal cruelty, a man dropped what seemed to be poison into an aquarium killing its fishy inhabitants.
Boon Keng fish shop Glassbox Aquarium posted closed-circuit TV (CCTV) footage of the incident on their Facebook page. The shop owners are hoping that netizens may be able to help them identify the man who poisoned the fish tank.
In their Facebook post, Glassbox Aquarium wrote that the man pretended to be browsing the shop on Tuesday night, (June 11, around 8:40PM). While the shop staff was busy attending to other customers, the man was seen “throwing some white powdery substance” into one of the fish tanks. The man then appeared to be in a great hurry to leave the shop.
The footage showed that the water immediately turned murky, and the fishy inhabitants all died “within five minutes” of exposure to the substance.
Staff also described a strong, industrial smell coming from the compromised fish tank.
Glassbox Aquarium added that the man had been a previous customer, but they have no other information about him that might help in the case or that could explain why he poisoned the harmless fish.
The shop owner, Mr. Ng Him Yick, said in a report by the New Paper that, “We’re just a small business and it’s very sad that someone would want to attack us like that. We’re just afraid he will come back and do something like this again because what he did really had an impact on our business.”
The owner spent the evening cleaning up the tank which contained freshwater tropical fish estimated to have cost around S$400 to S$500. He has already filed a police report.
Netizens expressed their anger over the cruel incident, wondering what could have motivated the man to do such a thing. Others tried to figure out what chemical the man man used, guessing either cyanide, chlorine, or a strong kind of bleach./TISG
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