KUANTAN: Marine police rescued 5,000 monitor lizards being smuggled out through a jetty in Batu Tiga, Jalan Gambang here.
The biawak air and biawak bukit, both endangered species, were found in 448 boxes. They were being unloaded from a trailer and loaded onto a waiting vessel.
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