A butcher has died after a pig being stunned in a slaughterhouse recovered and lashed out, causing the man to sustain a fatal wound from a 15-inch meat cleaver. The Mirror reports that the butcher shot the pig with an electric stun gun but it regained consciousness and killed the 61-year-old man in the ensuing struggle.
Police say the butcher, who worked at the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse near Hong Kong's border with mainland China, sustained the killer blow after the writhing pig knocked him to the ground. A little later, a colleague found him unconscious with a cleaver in his hand and a wound on his left foot.
He was pronounced dead at hospital. The region's labour department expressed its "deepest sympathy" to the butcher's family and said it had launched a probe.
