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A butcher died whereas attempting to slaughter a pig in Hong Kong on Friday, town’s police mentioned.
The 61-year-old butcher, who labored in the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse on town’s northern outskirts near its border with mainland China, was knocked to the bottom by the struggling pig and sustained a wound from a 40 centimeter (15 inch) meat cleaver, police instructed CNN.
The butcher had been about to kill the pig – which he had already shot with an electrical stun gun – when it regained consciousness and knocked him over, police mentioned.
A colleague discovered the person unconscious with the cleaver in his hand and a wound on his left foot, police mentioned. He was taken to hospital and was later licensed lifeless.
The police pressure mentioned the reason for demise has but to be decided.
The metropolis’s Labour Department mentioned it has launched an investigation.
“The Labour Department is saddened by the death of the person and expresses its deepest sympathy to his family,” it mentioned in a press release.
“We will complete the investigation as soon as possible to identify the cause of the accident, ascertain the liability of the duty holders and recommend improvement measures. We will take actions pursuant to the law if there is any violation of the work safety legislation,” a division spokesman mentioned.
The metropolis’s Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, which manages livestock slaughterhouses, provided its condolences to the person’s household in a press release.