In October 2014, a schoolboy was killed after a sacrificial goat jumped off a roof and landed on his head.

Heval Yildirim was playing with friends when the animal – which also died – plummeted six floors from the top of a block of flats. The 13-year-old's father, Mehmet, brought the goat into town for sacrifice on the Muslim feast day of Eid al-Adha.

He could not find anywhere suitable to keep it, so he stowed it on the roof above the family's home on the top floor. He said of the tragic accident: "I am devastated but what more can I say? In fact, there is nothing at all to say."

Police said they were investigating Heval's death in Diyarbakir, south-eastern Turkey, adding it was the first such case they had heard of.