ANI
Updated Mar 20, 2016, 7:11 pm IST
The bag was said to belong to a transit
passenger, who arrived from Madagascar
and flew to Kathmandu leaving this bag behind.
Two radiated tortoises were found
dead with broken shell . (Photo: Twitter)
Mumbai: The Custom officials on Sunday
seized 146 tortoises from a mishandled baggage of a Nepal
The incident happened when the Jet
Airways staff brought one left behind baggage to officers of Air Intelligence
Unit (AIU), saying that some suspicious images (shell like) had been noticed by
GVK Security.
The bag was said to belong to a transit
passenger, who arrived from Madagascar
and flew to Kathmandu leaving this bag behind.
Officers of Air Intelligence Unit examined the bag and recovered and seized 146
tortoises.
Out of the 146 tortoises, 139 were
Radiated tortoises (Astrochelys radiata)
and seven were Angonoka tortoises (Astrochelys
yniphora), both critically endangered tortoise species of Madagascar
Two radiated tortoises were found dead
with broken shell.
Since these were exotic species and
cannot be introduced into India Madagascar
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