SCHOOLBOYS made a desperate attempt to rescue a trapped horse as its stable became an inferno.
But flames and heat beat the boys back, and the Arab mare perished in the stable at Healey Heights, Burnley. Owner Linda Leaf, 18, said: "I just don't know how anybody could be cold and callous enough to do this to a defenceless animal."
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