A group of youths have killed three ducks in what the RSPCA has condemned as an "appalling" attack at a South Yorkshire country park. A red Renault Clio was seen being driven directly at the ducks in the car park of Cannon Hall in Cawthorne, Barnsley, on Sunday evening.
Two of the ducks were killed instantly. A third was killed later when the driver did a handbrake turn into it.
An RSPCA spokeswoman said the attack was an example of "appalling cruelty".
She added: "It's very distressing to think that the occupants of that car had nothing better to do than drive around killing ducks."
Four male youths, all wearing baseball caps, were seen in the car.
A witness alerted police and an RSPCA employee, who was at the park releasing a previously injured goose back into the wild, to the killings.
Both the RSPCA and the police have appealed for the witness and anyone else with information to come forward.
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