Hong Kong police have arrested two women on suspicion of animal cruelty after a severely ill three-month-old Golden Retriever, found covered in sewage, had to be euthanized. The puppy was discovered abandoned in a bin.

Hong Kong police have arrested two women on suspicion of animal cruelty after a sick three-month-old Golden Retriever was found dumped in a rubbish bin in Mong Kok, covered in sewage, and later euthanised. Inspector Yip Ho-lam said on Tuesday that police opened an investigation Saturday morning after a street cleaner discovered the puppy inside a bin in the alley behind 104 Hak Po Street. Officers from the animal crime investigation team later took over the case. “The puppy was immediately...