CARSON CITY, Nev. — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management suspended awild horse roundup in northeast Nevada on Monday after seven animalsdied of dehydration and another was shot when it broke its leg in aholding pen.Animal rights activists were outraged, saying the outcome waspredicable given the sweltering temperatures and helicopters used togather the animals.The BLM said the animals appeared in otherwise good shape when twogroups were herded by helicopter to holding pens in northern ElkoCounty on Saturday. But the roundup was halted Sunday morning afterfour horses were found dead in the pens and others showed signs ofcolic and brain swelling.--
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