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Pigeon suspected of being Chinese spy released by police in India after being detained for eight months | World News<\/p>\n
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A pigeon accused of being a Chinese spy has been cleared by police and released back into the wild.<\/p>\n
The bird was detained by officers after it was captured in May last year near a port in Mumbai, news agency Press Trust of India reported.<\/p>\n
It was found with two rings tied to its legs featuring words that appeared to be Chinese<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Detectives suspected the pigeon was involved in espionage and took it in, before later sending it to Mumbai’s Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital for Animals.<\/p>\n However, after eight months in captivity, it emerged that the creature was an open-water racing bird from Taiwan which had escaped and flown to India<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Police then approved the bird’s transfer to the Bombay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where doctors set free the falsely accused avian on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: Pigeons have been used in spying and combat throughout history, including by UK forces in the First World War and Second World War to deliver messages.<\/p>\n A pigeon called Gustav brought the first news of D-Day<\/strong> back to the UK, after a correspondent wrote a report and attached it to the bird while landing on Sword Beach in Normandy on 6 June 1944.<\/p>\n India has also previously detained the birds over security fears. In 2020 suspicious police in Indian-controlled Kashmir captured a pigeon<\/strong> <\/strong>that belonged to a Pakistani <\/strong>fisherman.<\/p>\n An investigation found the bird was not a spy, and had simply flown across the border between the countries.<\/p>\n In 2016 another pigeon was detained<\/strong> after it was allegedly found with a note that threatened Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a>
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