{"id":428342,"date":"2026-01-23T16:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428342\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:03:18","slug":"wild-boar-carcass-found-near-li-ka-shings-home-in-hong-kong-sparks-brief-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428342\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild boar carcass found near Li Ka-shing\u2019s home in Hong Kong sparks brief scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A wild boar carcass found outside the luxury Deep Water Bay residence of Hong Kong\u2019s richest man Li Ka-shing triggered a brief scare over possible human remains before authorities confirmed on Thursday that it was an animal.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A 61\u2011year\u2011old security guard at Li\u2019s home at 79 Deep Water Bay Road called police shortly before noon on Thursday after detecting a strong odour.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Officers arrived and discovered the carcass of a wild boar at the bottom of a 20-metre (66-foot) slope.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department was alerted to arrange the removal of the 1.2-metre-long carcass.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Police said there were no suspicious circumstances.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A video circulating online showed police and fire vehicles outside the residence, with several men in suits seen assessing the situation near the gate, sparking speculation on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wild boar carcass found outside the luxury Deep Water Bay residence of Hong Kong\u2019s richest man Li&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[178660,49,48,178661,178662,15674,34694,6975,66,178663,178664,68881,37274,323],"class_list":["post-428342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-boar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-deep-water-bay","tag-food-and-environmental-hygiene-department","tag-hong-kong","tag-li-ka-shing","tag-police","tag-science","tag-sun-hung-kai-properties","tag-victor-li-tzar-kuoi","tag-wild-boar","tag-wild-pig","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}