| 1 | A temple in southern Nepal known for the mass slaughter of animals at a festival every five years has indefinitely banned animal sacrifice, India's Humane Society International said Tuesday. |
| 2 | Millions of pilgrims from India and Nepal attend the festival at the Gadhimai temple about 90 miles south of Kathmandu. |
| 3 | According to the Humane Society, about 500,000 buffaloes, goats, chickens and other animals were killed at the temple in 2009. |
| 4 | Those numbers dropped in 2014 after India's Supreme Court banned taking animals across the border to Nepal for sacrifice there, campaigners said. |