(Video) Rat spotted lying motionless in Tai Wo Shopping Centre in Tai Po

A rat has been filmed lying motionless on a pedestrian walkway in Tai Wo Shopping Centre in Tai Po, the latest in a series of rodent sightings across Hong Kong.

A netizen uploaded a nine-second video to the Facebook group "Tai Po" showing a grey rat lying on the ground outside a restaurant. Several female students took out their phones to film it and passers-by walked past, but the rat did not move.

The clip ended without showing what happened to the rat. Netizens speculated it may have been injured or too young and frightened to move, with some noting a nearby market makes the area "a rat's paradise."

Recent sightings have been reported at food premises in Yuen Long, Tuen Mun and Tsing Yi, near rubbish bins outside a Kwun Tong industrial building, and at Tai Wo Hau MTR station.

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