Thai police foil attempt to smuggle 44 macaques stuffed in boxes, three die of suffocation


BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): Highway police swooped in on a Thai man trying to smuggle monkeys across the border to Laos on Tuesday (April 25) after receiving a tip-off.

Boonchuay (surname withheld), 44, was arrested on Tuesday evening following a car chase in Udon Thani’s Nong Harn district. In his MPV, police found 44 sedated monkeys crammed in plastic boxes. Three had died from suffocation.

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