Tuesday 25 November 2014 10.33 GMT
Vietnam’s environmental police have seized a record haul of over 1,000 endangered sea turtles which were being prepared for illegal export to China, an official said on Tuesday.
“The turtles were all dead,” said Le Hong Thai, an official of the Ministry of public security’s environmental police department.
“They were meant to be processed into handicrafts for export to China,” he added.
The raids were made on Wednesday last week in the resort town of Nha Trang on Vietnam’s south-central coast.
“The case is under investigation, so we cannot reveal the number of detainees or any other details,” Thai said.
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