Special taskforce set up in Gattolino to tackle sudden rodent infestation
It is like a scene from a horror film. As a car drives along a quiet road at night, hundreds of rats scuttle across the tarmac.
For a few days now the small village of Gattolino (which translates roughly as “little cat”) has been battling an infestation of rodents. Locals have nicknamed the newcomers “crazy white rats” because of their strange behaviour. They have reportedly been jumping in front of cars and killing each other. One firefighter told a local paper: “I’ve never seen anything like it before.”
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