A beach goer has expressed her outrage after children threw stones at a seal before a woman grabbed the animal by its tail.
Donna had just been for a swim in Hornsea on April 18 and noticed the seal in the water. It then went up on to the beach for a rest but she could not believe it when a group of youngsters began harassing it.
She said: “I was absolutely shocked to see that as it came to shore some children around 12 years old started throwing stones at it. "They were told off but then a woman came marching up and grabbed the seal by its tail with the aim of flinging it back in the sea", The Mirror reports.
She added: “The seal went for this lady. All it wanted to do was rest but everyone wanted a close up picture and were surrounding it and it wasn't able to rest and it was getting very distressed.“British Divers Marine Life Rescue were called so they could take it away to allow it to rest properly and when it was ready it would re-enter the sea.
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