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Friday
18Jan2008

Snakes on a plane in Viet Nam

Custom officials in Viet Nam have discovered a ton of live snakes aboard a flight arriving from Thailand, reports the Telegraph

Ton of live snakes found on plane in Vietnam
Telegraph, UK
18 January 2008


Vietnamese customs officials have discovered a ton of live snakes on a plane.

The illegal cargo - on board a Thai Air flight from Bangkok - was hidden inside 60 ice boxes marked "fresh fish".

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