About 900 pigs have died after a large fire tore through a piggery at a farm in Dorset.
Firefighters fought the blaze at Seaborough Manor, near the town of Beaminster, for up to three hours on Friday.
Some 50 firefighters battled the fire at the farm’s piggery for up to three hours.
“There was 100 percent severe damage to the piggery and sadly approximately 900 pigs lost their lives in the fire,” a spokeswoman for Dorset Fire and Rescue Service said.
Officials said the building had an asbestos roof. An investigation is under way into the cause of the fire, which was first reported at 6.30 a.m.
Seaborough Manor is the second Dorset farm to lose large numbers of livestock in a fire in less than a year.
A total of 180 piglets and 18 sows died in a blaze at Corton Farm in Friar Waddon, Weymouth, last May.
Hundreds of pigs die in farm fire
