Seal hunt activists ‘run off the road’

THE final leg of Canada’s contentious seal hunt moved to the ice floes off north-eastern Newfoundland and Labrador yesterday, with sealers expected to slaughter a further 234,000 harp seal pups in one day.

Animal rights activists said their vehicle carrying foreign journalists was run off the road as they were making their way to their helicopter to document the hunt.

They were then trapped in their hotel.