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Customs officers have seized $60 million worth of unmanifested goods, including electronic products and endangered species specimens, smuggled aboard a river trade vessel.

 

They stopped the Mainland vessel, heading for Humen, Guangdong, off Black Point on May 16.

 

They found three 45-foot containers declared to contain "polyethylene balls". However, inside were 4,200 cameras and lenses, 6,200 tablet computers, 42,000 computer hard-disks, 165,000 liquid crystal display panels, 7,800 computer mother boards, 900,000 integrated circuits, and 200kg of endangered species specimens, like ivory, pangolin scale, and dried sea horse.

 

The consignments were camouflaged with 180 bags of polyethylene balls.

 

No arrests have been made so far.

Police have arrested an 86-year-old man for murdering another elderly man in a Western District nursing home.

 

A 71-year-old man was reportedly attacked with a walking stick at the home on Davis Street at about 2.45am today.

 

He was sent to Queen Mary Hospital where he later died.

 

Police arrested the elder man at the scene.

 

A post-mortem examination will be conducted.

The Food & Environmental Hygiene Department has ordered a food factory in Tsuen Wan to suspend business until May 31.

 

The facility, located at No.6 Yi Pei Square, was closed for breaching the Food Business Regulation by illegally extending the food business area.

 

The factory had two convictions for the beach in February and the court levied a fine of $4,000 and 30 demerit points were registered under the department's demerit points system.

 

The contraventions resulted in the suspension.

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