Five nabbed, tiger foetuses seized in Riau


Hunted: The skin of an adult tiger and four foetuses stored in a jar that were seized by the Indonesian authorities in Riau province’s Pelalawan district. — AP

PEKANBARU: Indonesian authorities have arrested five suspected poachers of a pair of critically endangered pregnant Sumatran tigers and seized four foetuses that had been preserved in a jar, a forestry official said.

The five suspects – four men and a woman – were arrested by a team of police and forestry ministry officers in separate raids in two villages in Riau province’s Pelalawan district on Saturday after receiving a tip from villagers, said Eduward Hutapea, a local environment and forestry law enforcement chief, said on Sunday.

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