Cyclone Gabrielle: Hawke’s Bay floods - Amazing photo shows horse stranded on roof

A horse stranded on a building in flooded Hawke’s Bay that sparked a desperate rescue bid by animal lovers across New Zealand has been found dead.

The photograph, shared by the New Zealand Equestrian Scene Facebook page, showed the animal on the roof of a building on Dartmoor Road in Puketapu, beside the Tutaekuri River.

“I can’t stop crying,” one woman wrote on seeing the image, which also shows another horse on a bank beside the flooded paddock that has consumed the building.

In an update this afternoon, New Zealand Equestrian Scene said with “profound sadness” that the horse on the roof had died.

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