Looters seize chicks spilled on road

Villagers rushed to the scene to steal chicks when a truck carrying thousands of the birds overturned on a highway in Shandong province on Tuesday, causing a traffic jam more than 10 kilometers long.

The truck overturned at noon in Zhanhua county, Binzhou, on a highway linking Rongcheng in Shandong and Wuhai in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

Most of the chicks that spilled out onto the road and embankment were alive and were stolen by villagers who rushed to the scene after hearing about the accident.