What wild boar look like when they haven’t been beaten to death. Marcus Saul
A man has been arrested and two others are on the run after a pair of wild boar was found bludgeoned to death in a Hong Kong country park.
Bait was reportedly placed in a nylon net to lure the pigs into a trap at Kowloon Reservoir in Kam Shan Country Park, Cheung Sha Wan. It is thought the men killed the animals for food.
“An initial investigation revealed that a wild pig fell into the trap and was bludgeoned to death,” one source with knowledge of the case told the SCMP. “The other boar was beaten to death while approaching the trap.”
The alarm was raised at about 10:15pm last night when a hiker spotted three men carrying torches. They fled in a car on realising their discovery, leaving the beaten bodies of the boars behind.
Police raided an address at Sham Shui Po and arrested a 31-year-old man at around 7am this morning. He is being held for questioning but has not yet been charged.
If found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, the man could be fined HKD200,000 and jailed for three years.
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