HK seizes smuggled elephant tusks from Cameroon
(AP)
Updated: 2006-05-10 15:36
Hong Kong customs officials have seized 3.9 metric tons (4.29 short tons) in
elephant tusks smuggled in a shipping container from Cameroon, the government
said Wednesday.
The tusks, worth about HK$8 million (US$1.03 million, euro807,290), were the
largest such seizure "in recent years," Hong Kong Customs said in a statement.
Officials couldn't say when the last big seizure was.
Officers found the tusks in a concealed compartment in a shipping container
that was declared to be carrying timber from the West African nation of
Cameroon, the statement said.
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