A 50-year-old man in India was killed when he was sliced in the neck by his own rooster while on the way to a cockfight, according to CNN.

Saripalli Chanavenkateshwaram Rao — a father of three — died of a stroke after being transported to a hospital when he suffered the cut from a razor tied to the animal’s claw on Jan. 15, officer Kranti Kumar said in a statement CNN. The fatal injury occurred when the rooster tried to escape, Kumar added.

Rao was from a village in Andhra Pradesh, a state located in south-eastern India, and frequently attended cockfights in the area.

A centuries-old practice, cockfighting involves placing roosters in an enclosed pit and having them fight to the death, according to the Humane Society…