Brit town suffering 'explosion' of massive rats as teen girls scream at rodents

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rats has left residents screaming and stamping on them to kill the rodents.Huddersfield town centre has reportedly become overwhelmed with rodents running rampant along its streets and locals desperate for action.Shocking photos reveal how the rats have been brazenly burrowing in plain sight at a bus station while shoppers can rarely head to Tesco without spotting a scuttling creature.According to YorkshireLive, business owners have called on council chiefs to do more to stop the town's growing rat problem spiralling further.One resident blames the boom in vermin on lockdown letting rats freely roam the empty town, others point the finger at people deliberately leaving behind food on the street.A YorkshireLive reporter witnessed one middle-aged man killing two young rats by stamping on them in the vicinity on Saturday night as teenage girls screamed for help.One restaurant owner who didn't want to be named said: "Walk on the bottom side from the market by Tesco towards Bradford Road."They are everywhere in those awful overgrown raised 'planters' the council has placed everywhere."It's not just a problem associated by the bus station, it's across the whole town centre."While Kirklees councillor Andrew Cooper, (Greens, Newsome), who represents the town centre, said: "I am aware that there are people who feed the pigeons and end up feeding the rats."We need to do more to challenge these people and obviously the council's pest control team will need to be aware of it."Stephen Knight who lives in Huddersfield town centre just a few yards from the bus station said: "I think this explosion in the rat population is down to the pandemic which left them free to breed and roam as they pleased."I have seen them and they are massive.