Cages holding carcasses of dog, two cats found on Hong Kong beach, recalling dark discovery of 15 dead pets in August
- Police say one of the cages was found by a woman in Lantau Island’s Sham Wat, who had spotted a pair of crates floating offshore on Sunday
- A number of drowned pets were found in similar circumstances over August 26 and 27, days after a customs operation at sea had seized live, microchipped dogs
Two cages containing the carcasses of one dog and two cats were found washed up on a Hong Kong beach on Tuesday, prompting police to launch a criminal investigation into animal cruelty.
The new case came to light shortly after 11am on Tuesday when a woman found one of the cages on a beach in Lantau Island’s Sham Wat. Police at the scene subsequently found the second cage.
The cage was believed to have been washed ashore. It is not known whether the cage found today was one of the two crates she spotted on Sunday
According to the force, one of the two crates contained a dog carcass, while the other held two dead cats.
“The cages were believed to have washed ashore,” a police spokesman said.
The same woman told police she had spotted two cages floating off the beach on Sunday but did notify the force at the time.
It was not yet known if the crates found on Tuesday were the same ones she spotted two days earlier.
