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Ukrainian woman caught smuggling 116 live tortoises from Tanzania into Thailand


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Police arrested a Ukrainian woman at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport yesterday after airport security found 116 live tortoises in her luggage. The woman smuggled the protected wildlife on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Bangkok, transiting in Adidas Ababa in Ethiopia along the way.

Yesterday at 2:40pm, Chief of the Wildlife Checkpoint at Suvarnabhumi Airport Sathon Kong-ngern reported that police arrested Olga Kryshtopa of Ukrainian nationality after X-raying her luggage and finding 116 live tortoises...

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/crime/ukrainian-woman-caught-smuggling-116-live-tortoises-from-tanzania-into-thailand

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Airport officials and Police decided to X-ray the woman's luggage after their Bomb Detectors detected explosives. The X-rays clearly showed many Tortoises. The Tortoises will be detonated by the bomb squad as they could have explosives hidden inside them. 

"This is another success story for the Bomb Detectors" said former Minister Sukumpol Suwanatat

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Members of the bomb squad waiting for Tortoises to stop moving, prior to their detonation.

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