Maputo — The Thai Customs authorities at Bangkok airport have seized 73 elephant tusks, supposedly smuggled out of Mozambique, that were en route to Laos.
The ivory, according to Thai General Director of Customs, Prasong Poontaneh, was discovered on Wednesday in a warehouse belonging to Thai Airways International, at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport, in two boxes labeled as "personal property", that were to be taken on to the Laotian capital Vientiane.
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