Thai man arrested for smuggling baby orangutans


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BANGKOK: Thai police have arrested a man suspected of smuggling two baby orangutans into the kingdom, they said Thursday (May 15), in a case linked to an international wildlife trafficking network.

The 47-year-old suspect was detained on Wednesday evening at a petrol station in a residential district of Bangkok while preparing to hand over the animals to a customer, police said in a statement.

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