City officials in Framingham, Massachusetts, are under fire from animal lovers after killing beavers they say were causing a public safety hazard. Building dams, which had combined with excessive rainfall to create hazardous flooding conditions. “The City of Framingham regrets that it was placed into a set of circumstances that resulted in the demise of the beavers,” the city said in a statement posted on Facebook. Additionally, rising water had started making local roadways dangerous to traverse, Framingham spokeswoman Kelly McFalls told HuffPost in an email. “This flooding created dangerous driving conditions for anyone traveling that route, specifically the 15 school buses that traverse that route twice daily.

Source: Huffington Post December 15, 2018 23:03 UTC