伊朗“巨鼠”肆虐 或受核輻射影響

Tehran, the capital of Iran, is battling an invasion of "genetically mutated" giant rats.

Iran has sent in sniper teams to clear Tehran's streets of the massive rodents weighting up to five kilos plaguing 26 districts of the Iranian capital, the city's environmental agency said.

"They seem to have had a genetic mutation, probably as a result of radiations and the chemical used on them," Ismail Kahram, Teheran city council environment adviser and university professor Ismail Kahram told .

"They are now bigger and look different. These are changes that normally take millions of years of evolution. They have jumped from 60 grams to five kilos, and cats are now smaller than them."

The "mutated rats" have been running rampant in the capital, as cats are scared off by their giant size and traditional poison appear to have no effect on them.

To stop them storming into restaurants' backyards and scavenging public waste containers, the council has deployed ten sniper teams armed with infra-red sighted rifles.

"We use chemical poisons to kill the rats during the day and the snipers at night, so it has become a 24/7 war," the head of the environment agency, Mohammad Hadi Heydarzadeh, said.

Rats' carcasses are burnt or buried in lime.

So far 2,205 rats have been shot dead, but the war is far from being won and the council is planning to bring the sniper team up to 40.

伊朗首都德黑蘭正與發生了“基因變異”的巨鼠展開“鬥爭”。

伊朗環境部門表示，伊朗已出動狙擊手小組來捕殺德黑蘭街頭的巨鼠。這些巨鼠體重達5公斤，已經在德黑蘭首都的26個地區肆虐。

德黑蘭市議會的環保顧問、大學教授伊斯梅爾•卡赫蘭表示：“這些老鼠似乎已經發生了基因變異，很可能是受到輻射和毒鼠藥裏化學物質影響。”

“它們現在體型巨大，看起來很嚇人。通常完成這樣的演變需要數百萬年。它們的體重從60克上升到5公斤，比貓大多了。”

這些“變種巨鼠”一直在德黑蘭肆虐，由於個頭兒太大會把貓嚇跑，傳統的鼠藥對它們也無效。

爲了把它們趕出餐館後院和公共垃圾桶，德黑蘭市議會派出10名狙擊手滅鼠。這些狙擊手還配備了紅外視線步槍。

伊朗環境部門負責人Mohammad Hadi Heydarzadeh說：“我們白天用鼠藥滅鼠，晚上狙擊手捕殺，現在已經成爲了一場7乘24小時的戰爭。

巨鼠的屍體會被焚燒或者用石灰掩埋。

目前，已有2205只巨鼠被射殺，但人們還沒有取得人鼠大戰的勝利。市議會計劃將狙擊手的人數增加到40人。