{"id":299492,"date":"2026-01-23T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/299492\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:17:08","slug":"wild-boar-carcass-found-near-li-ka-shings-home-in-hong-kong-sparks-brief-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/299492\/","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":299493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[84310,148183,18,10529,4202,19,17,148181,5915,133,148184,148185,35328,148182,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-299492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-boar","9":"tag-deep-water-bay","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-food-and-environmental-hygiene-department","12":"tag-hong-kong","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-li-ka-shing","16":"tag-police","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-sun-hung-kai-properties","19":"tag-victor-li-tzar-kuoi","20":"tag-wild-boar","21":"tag-wild-pig","22":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115944609709886325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}