MANILA (AFP) - Police have arrested six South Koreans suspected of running a massive, high-tech dogfighting operation where matches in the Philippines were shown online to overseas bettors, police said on Saturday.
About 240 pitbulls were confiscated in the raid late on Friday from a secluded compound where the dogs were kept and the matches held, the local police intelligence chief said.
'They had an arena enclosed with mirrors. They had video cameras, computers and they would show live fights of the pitbulls and it could be seen on their website in Korea,' Chief Inspector Romeo Valero said.
He told AFP that Filipino caretakers hired to take care of the animals said the dogfighting operation in a rural area about an hour's drive south of Manila had been going on for over a month, and sometimes dogs would die from their injuries.
