Thailand makes largest seizure of smuggled African ivory

Thai customs officials show April 20, 2015 in Bangkok, about 4 tons of African ivory worth around $6 million they have seized in the Thai capital in what they say is the largest confiscation of the kind in Thailand. The 739 elephant tusks were being smuggled from the Democratic Republic of Congo, hidden in bags of beans in a container that arrived April 18 in Bangkok from Malaysia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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