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Hundred of piglets killed in fire Hundreds of piglets die in fire
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Eight hundred piglets and 80 pigs have been killed in a fire in County Down.Eight hundred piglets and 80 pigs have been killed in a fire in County Down.
The fire service was called to the blaze at Nugent Estate on Mountain Road in Portaferry at 0650 GMT on Friday. The blaze, at a building in Nugent Estate in Portaferry, started on Friday morning. Police are investigating but it is not being treated as malicious.
A fire service spokeswoman said the middle section of the piggery - about 250 square metres - was on fire. Fire-fighters left the scene at 0830 GMT. Mike Bell, who works on the estate, said the "intensity of the fire was such that there was not a lot left".
Officers advised the owners to get an engineer to check the structure of the rest of the building. The cause of the fire is not yet known. "The animals I'm sure did not suffer, there was no sound. But the stockman in chage of the section is devastated," he said.