Chinese restaurant busted for rounding up stray dogs to make into pasties

Customers in a Chinese snack bar were unwittingly eating stray dogs which had been rounded up and killed by staff – and served as beef.

Horrified police officers found a basement where illegal immigrants slaved inside cages for up to 18 hours a day, surrounded by the stench of dead corpses.

The snack bar in Rio de Janeiro was serving ‘beef" pasties which were filled with the ground-up flesh of stray dogs from the city"s streets.

Staff had killed the animals with blows to the head – and filled a freezer with their bodies.

Owner Van Ruilonc, 32, admitted that the animals were strays rounded up from the streets of the city.

Public prosecutor Guadalupe Louro Couto said, ‘I"ve seen lots of bad things, but what I saw in that pastry house was worse than everything. To start with, there was a cell, like a jail, with bars and padlock, set up inside the snack bar, where the worker was imprisoned.

Horrified police officers found a freezer full of dog corpses (Picture Daily Mail)

‘Apart from this, he lived with the stench of dead dogs, which were kept in the same room. I couldn"t stand it. I started to feel ill and asked to leave.

‘When we started to open the polystyrene boxes, we saw the frozen dogs.