Cat’s head found on tray in Hong Kong village at start of Lunar New Year
Passer-by calls police after spotting offerings and black cat’s head on tray as he passed village entrance
The severed head of a cat has been found in a village in northwestern Hong Kong on the first day of Lunar New Year, sparking a police investigation into suspected animal cruelty.
Police received a report at 11.20am on Wednesday from a man who had spotted offerings along with an object that looked like a black cat’s head as he passed the entrance to Sheung Yau Tin village in Yuen Long in the New Territories.
“The reason for the cat’s head being placed there is still under investigation,” a police spokesman said.
According to a source, the man called police as he saw blood stains on the cat’s head.
No surveillance cameras were installed in the vicinity, the source said, adding that police patrols in the area had yielded no results so far.
