Activists: Stray cats dying in Belarus basements

By Yuras Karmanau

Published February 5, 2013 5:00am ET

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Activists: Stray cats dying in Belarus basements — A stray cat leaves a house through a hole in an iron panel covering a basement window in the Belarusian capital Minsk, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. Municipal authorities in Belarus have walled up stray cats in basements in compliance with Soviet-era regulations, dooming them to death of hunger. But some residents made holes for cats to escape. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) | Sergei Grits

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — City authorities in the Belarusian capital of Minsk are carelessly trapping stray cats in locked basements, dooming them to starvation, animal activists say.

Elena Titova, leader of the animal rights group Protect Life, says the ex-Soviet nation has no long-term shelters to house stray animals. She estimated that about 9,000 strays have been killed in the Belarusian capital alone over the past three years.

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