Qatari camels were left stranded in Saudi Arabia after farmers were expelled due to a political rift between the countries, reported the Guardian.
Hundreds of Qatari-owned camels died of dehydration after being left in tents or stranded in the open in temperatures that reached 50 degrees Celsius.
Only a few hundred camels were permitted to cross the border each day by Saudi Arabia, leaving fleets of camels lost without direction along the Saudi-Qatari border.
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Qatar’s Ministry of Environment has since provided shelter and food for just under 10,000 camels that have been allowed back into the country.
Saudi Arabia along with a coalition of states severed ties with Doha accusing it of supporting terrorism and extremism and imposed a siege by land, air and sea on the small Gulf state. Qatar categorically denied the allegations.