He said that in the sty was a large male pig with blood on its mouth.

The following morning, his cousin found him dead, and discovered a door to a neighbouring pig sty open.

From 40 to 50, grown easy and sly, I wined them and dined them, like pigs in a sty.

The man, identified only by his surname Yuan, was found dead with a severed artery, covered in blood near a sty at the market in Liupanshui in Guizhou province, the South China Morning Post reported Sunday.