Two men carrying 31 rhinoceros horns worth an estimated one million dollars were arrested by
police in Vietnam, a police official said on Monday.
Police discovered the horns on Saturday, said a police spokesman at Nghe An provincial police
department in central Vietnam.
Doan Duy Dinh and Le Thanh Trung, both aged 32, were caught with 37kg of horns in three bags at
a railway station.
According to Dinh an unidentified man had hired him to transport the consignment from Ho Chi
Minh City to Nghe An for $1 850, police said.
Total No of Rhinos slaughtered in South Africa to End of December 2021 = 451 Official figures. Note: the number of wild rhinos in Kruger has declined from 3,500 to 2,800 in one year. Read my blog below for Headlines from around the World concerning the Global Catastrophe that is causing the biggest mass extinction since the Permian Period, and News of the fight to stop the slaughter of the Planet's Wildlife before it is too late.
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