Police find 300 tons of dead pigs buried in remote Zhejiang mountain
By Published: Sep 11, 2017 11:52 AM
Police in East China's Zhejiang Province said they found 300 tons of dead pigs in a remote mountain in Huzhou of the province, reports said Monday.
A local waste disposal company, Huzhou Industrial and Medical Disposal Center, buried the pigs in 2013 on six separate occasions, the Xinhua News Agency quoted Huzhou police as saying.
The company buried dead pigs from six 50-ton refrigeration containers in three separate spots on Dayin Mountain, the Xinhua report said.
A central environmental protection inspection team led by the Ministry of Environmental Protection first unearthed the pig carcasses wrapped in black plastic bags on August 30, Caijing magazine said on Sunday.
The report didn't elaborate where the company collected those dead pigs from.
The Huzhou government's Information Office Sina Weibo account said authorities have detained five people.
Huzhou's agricultural department said samples of the dead pigs showed they didn't carry either the H5, H7 or foot and mouth disease.
Local villagers feared the dead pig would pollute their drinking water and air.
Reports said a former company manager, Shi Zheng, who is in jail for another offense, ordered the company to bury the pigs.
The company was also fined 400,000 yuan ($61,750) in 2014 for violating pollution regulations, Caijing reported.
A special team from the Zhejiang provincial government has been sent to Huzhou for further investigation.
A local waste disposal company, Huzhou Industrial and Medical Disposal Center, buried the pigs in 2013 on six separate occasions, the Xinhua News Agency quoted Huzhou police as saying.
The company buried dead pigs from six 50-ton refrigeration containers in three separate spots on Dayin Mountain, the Xinhua report said.
A central environmental protection inspection team led by the Ministry of Environmental Protection first unearthed the pig carcasses wrapped in black plastic bags on August 30, Caijing magazine said on Sunday.
The report didn't elaborate where the company collected those dead pigs from.
The Huzhou government's Information Office Sina Weibo account said authorities have detained five people.
Huzhou's agricultural department said samples of the dead pigs showed they didn't carry either the H5, H7 or foot and mouth disease.
Local villagers feared the dead pig would pollute their drinking water and air.
Reports said a former company manager, Shi Zheng, who is in jail for another offense, ordered the company to bury the pigs.
The company was also fined 400,000 yuan ($61,750) in 2014 for violating pollution regulations, Caijing reported.
A special team from the Zhejiang provincial government has been sent to Huzhou for further investigation.
