1,655 kg of live snakes, mostly pythons and 263 turtles have been seized by Cambodian authorites. Police arrested 2 men who were attempting to smuggle the animals by boat along the Bassac River to Viet Nam, reports the Sydney Morning Herald

Smugglers stopped: two tonnes of live rare snakes and turtles seized, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 December 2009

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