Officials involved with the rescue said the lion cub and the langurs were highly sedated. He said as the mouth of the nylon bag was stitched, it made movement and breathing extremely difficult for the lion cub. Senior forest department officials failed to remember the last time they had rescued a lion cub being smuggled. But smuggling of a lion cub was something that they hadn’t spotted at least in the recent past. Sources said that in November 2017 the authorities in Bangladesh had rescued a lion cub that was being smuggled.

Source: The Telegraph June 01, 2019 22:07 UTC