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Smuggler caught with dozens of venomous vipers "concealed in checked-in baggage" on plane, customs officials say

[/b]A enger smuggling dozens of venomous vipers was stopped after flying into the financial capital Mumbai, India, from Thailand, Indian customs officials said.

[b]The snakes, which included 44 Indonesian pit vipers, were "concealed in checked-in baggage," Mumbai Customs said in a statement late Sunday.

"An Indian national arriving from Thailand was arrested," it added.

The enger also had three Spider-tailed horned vipers — which are venomous, but usually only target small prey such as birds — as well as five Asian leaf turtles.

Mumbai Customs released photographs of the seized snakes in a post on social media, including blue and yellow reptiles squirming in a bucket.

The snakes are a relatively unusual seizure in Mumbai, with customs officers more regularly posting pictures of hauls of smuggled gold, cash, cannabis or pills of suspected cocaine swallowed by engers.

However, in February, customs officials at Mumbai airport also stopped a smuggler with five Siamang gibbons, a small ape native to the forests of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

Those small creatures, listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, were "ingeniously concealed" in a plastic crate placed inside the enger's trolley bag, customs officers said.

In November, customs officers seized a enger carrying a wriggling live cargo of 12 turtles, and a month before, four hornbill birds, all on planes arriving from Thailand.

In September, two engers were arrested with five juvenile caimans, a reptile in the alligator family.

Last July, a man was caught trying to smuggle over 100 live snakes into mainland China by cramming them into his tros.

In 2019, the BBC reported officials at the Chennai airport seized a horned pit viper snake, five Iguanas, four blue-tongued skinks, three green tree frogs and 22 Egyptian tortoises from a man traveling from Thailand.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venomous-vipers-dozens-enger-smuggling-india/

Lol Weird people jus full this world....

He should be charged for attempting to kidnap Lalasticlala's children

TouchNfollow:


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venomous-vipers-dozens-enger-smuggling-india/

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Wow

Recipe for disaster

Ok

Must be worth millions.

Indian people and snake.

Man, the problem of himself. God help us

Let’s not rush to conclusion
It may be for a good cause

No be expired indomie be this

Cmanforall:
Let’s not rush to conclusion
It may be for a good cause

Why go through an illegal means then?

That's his property. He is their father and custodian.

Hmmm

Awon awo Lala stic to lala. They want to rear in the new abode.

inoki247:
Lol Weird people jus full this world....

You know snake venom is expensive and use to make drugs maybe that is why he is transporting them

AmoryBlacq:
He should be charged for attempting to kidnap Lalasticlala's children

AmoryBlacq:
He should be charged for attempting to kidnap Lalasticlala's children

his favorite

Those snakes' venoms could fetch a good price from pharmaceuticals into snake antiséra production.

Reminds me of the movie "snakes on a plane"

I'm so sure that these people arrested for kidnapping the children of lalaslatica, wants to use it for snake venom drugs

Many thousands not caught nko?

We catch dem by lucky

So it is snakes on a plane

isnt this the snakes from Burutai?

RollinTNDA:
No be expired indomie be this

the killer type