Passers-by were seen throwing water on the animal as it held up traffic.
A horse made to pull tourists in a carriage in temperatures of more than 30°C has been photographed after collapsing to the floor with exhaustion.
Witnesses came to throw water on the visibly underweight animal as it held up traffic after its legs buckled and it fell in the middle of the road.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that Onlooker Ses Tiongco said: ‘I felt so sorry for the horse because he was so tired. He fell down from exhaustion.‘Fortunately he was able to stand up again.’Horses are regularly worked into the ground in the tourist area This incident is the latest example of horses being overworked in the Intramuros district of the capital, which used to be a stronghold of Spanish colonisers in the 1700s.
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