Bird smugglers escape empty-handed

MELAKA: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has seized 1,100 songbirds that were being smuggled across the Melaka Strait.

MMEA’s Melaka and Negri Sembilan director Maritime Captain Haris Fadzillah Abdullah said the birds, which were of the Oriental magpie-robin species, were seized during an operation along the shores of Alai here on Wednesday.