Indonesia seizes 10 'dowry' elephant tusks smuggled in from Sabah


Indonesian officials showing the 10 elephant tusks seized from the suspect (centre).

KOTA KINABALU: Indonesian Customs officials have seized 10 elephant tusks that were being smuggled by an estate worker into Kalimantan.

The 54-year-old Indonesian labourer was arrested by the Indonesian authorities when they spotted the tusks inside a plastic barrel upon scanning it with an X-ray machine on Tuesday (July 9), according to a news report from Kalimantan.

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