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Police in a town in southern China believe a local billionaire businessman may have been murdered over lunch by eating cat meat in a poisoned stew. The AP says the two men had a business spat and one invited the other to share lunch and talk business. Authorities believe the cat-meat stew was laced with toxins, killing billionaire Hunag Guang. His associate was taken into custody.公仔箱論壇9 E- g) |4 H2 {" O) k. V) x
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' g& c# N3 F2 T6 U+ {) {5.39.217.76Huang, deputy director of agriculture in Guangdong's Bajia township, is suspected of poisoning the hotpot with the herb Gelsemium elegans, according to a statement on the microblog of the investigating police.
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) z2 {/ i+ l' G: z3 yGelsemium elegans is a toxic plant indigenous to southeastern Asia well known among hill tribes as an effective means for committing suicide.
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: ~% u S+ L4 K0 lYet despite containing poisonous alkaloids, it is also still used in Chinese medicine to treat skin ulcers and increasingly being used in the mainstream.5.39.217.76+ A, J( }3 K4 k
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In the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.
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5 A6 ^. R i4 j& M. X6 o# n" Z& O公仔箱論壇 Cat meat is a Cantonese delicacy, much to the growing dismay of animal rights advocates in China. In recent years, animal lovers have blocked trucks loaded with thousands of cats bound for Guangdon |
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