Animals left to die on small Sabah isle

Shell shock: Rangers taking photographs of the turtle carcasses on Pulau Tiga.

KOTA KINABALU: Nineteen green turtles whose carcasses were found on a desolate island in northern Sabah are believed to have died cruelly.

Wildlife investigators believed that poachers had caught the turtles and turned them on their back on the uninhabited Pulau Tiga while waiting for buyers.