[HIGHLIGHTS] Bay of Somme: sheep panicked by the tide die from suffocation

Bay of Somme: sheep panicked by the tide die from suffocation. Farmers lost their 27 ewes and lambs while trying to cross an arm of the sea.

“The animals panicked, the herd rushed, it’s powerful!,” says Picard Mail. The Bay of SomMe offers pastures for sheep, on salt marshes also called ‘mollières’ They are submerged during high tides, which can frighten the ewers.