For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com<br />Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision<br />Add us on Facebook ☛ http://on.fb.me/s5KV2C<br /><br />A Chinese billionaire from Guangdong Province died after eating a cat meat stew at a local restaurant. Police detained a local official suspected of murdering the businessman by lacing the dish with a poisonous herb. Here's that story.<br /><br />Chinese police detained a Communist Party official for allegedly murdering a local business tycoon by poisoning a cat meat hotpot. The businessman died in Yangchun City in China's southern province of Guangdong.<br /><br />The director of Yangchun agricultural office, Huang Guang, is accused of putting a poisonous herb—gelsemium elegans—in the hotpot dish.<br /><br />Chinese businessman Long Liyuan, together with Huang Guang and Huang Wen, ate the cat meat hotpot at a local restaurant.<br /><br />Long's daughter said the herb was not put in the soup by someone from the restaurant.<br /><br />"It wasn't raw. It was cooked. He was behaving differently to normal."<br /><br />Long ate more of the stew and died—while the other two men survived. Huang Wen said he didn't eat much.<br /><br />[Huang Wen, Businessman]:<br />"When I ate it I thought that the soup was a little bitter... I thought perhaps sometimes they didn't clean the cat properly, or it contained cat liver."<br /><br />His sharp sensitivity to taste had saved him.<br /><br />[Liu Shichuan, Medical Doctor]:<br />"When Huang Wen came his symptoms were less extreme, but he had some paralysis in his throat."<br /><br />Hotpot is a popular Chinese dish of meat and vegetable stew. Cats and other animals are often eaten in the southern provinces of China.
