KOTA KINABALU: Malaysian coastguards intercepted a boat and rescued 1,400 tortoises that were being taken out of Sabah for the exotic food market in Vietnam.
Six crewmen, two of them Malaysians, were arrested when the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) intercepted a boat 1.6 nautical miles from the state capital at 3am.
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