Cameroonian customs has arrested two men for trying to smuggle 80 cobras and vipers to London on a commercial flight.
The suspects, a Cameroonian national and a Nigerian, were arrested early Friday at the airport in the country’s commercial hub Douala for using fake papers to get their cargo out, customs service spokesman Jean-Claude Ekoube told AFP.
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They were being transported in wooden boxes marked “Venomous”.
The men were booked on an Air France flight to London via Paris. [AFP]
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