Animal-powered vehicles

The horrific death of a carriage horse transporting tourists on the island of Corfu in the scorching heat at noon on Thursday and the images of it lying prostrate on ground have caused a public outcry, prompting the intervention of Supreme Court Deputy Prosecutor Anastasia Massoura.

A serious accident occurred near the junction of the Sliven village of Sotirya. Four people died. They were traveling in a horse carriage and were hit by a jeep. The victims are aged 37, 38 and two aged 31.

A 26-year-old artist has been painting hand-pulled carts with gunnysacks of waste paper collectors as part of the "Faces of the Street" project he started a year ago to raise awareness of those "unnamed laborers of the recycle sector."

Murska Sobota – A ride with an innovative horse-drawn electric carriage developed as part of a Slovenian-Austrian EU-sponsored project was demonstrated on Tuesday at the Rakičan Mansion near the city of Murska Sobota. The project aims at developing carriage routes in a bid to promote sustainable cross-border tourism.

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has brought electric vehicles to be used on the Princes' Islands (Adalar), off Istanbul's coast, after a ban on horse-drawn carriages as a result of the killing of dozens of horses due to an outbreak of glanders and years-long animal rights activism against what advocates called the ill-treatment of horses.

A long-awaited draft report on animal rights that will be submitted to the parliament on Oct. 4 calls for the "immediate" use of electric cars on Istanbul's Princes' Islands in an attempt to protect the horses used for carriage rides on the islands.

'Don't use horse-drawn carriages, we are dying!'

Archaeologists have discovered burial pits that are 2400 years old in central China with remains of chariots and horses used for the burial of an ancient ruler, the Daily Mail reported.

The Carnival of Patra is tradition in Greece and everybody, not just the children are waiting for the festivities to begin!
The chariots, every year, are a special spectacle with themes taken from what is going on at the time in country and around the world.

Kazanlak managed to get away with a possible tragedy as furious horses raided the streets of the Bulgarian town, located at the foot of the Balkan mountain range.