Pieces of rhino horns are found in three suitcases of three Vietnamese nationals at Suvarnabhumi airport on Sunday. (Photo by Sutthiwit Chayutworakan)Customs officials early on Sunday arrested three Vietnamese nationals - one man and two women - in possession of 15 pieces of rhino horns altogether weighing 7.4 kilogrammes at Suvarnabhumi airport. On their arrival at the airport, the Vietnamese were stopped by customs officials for a search. In an x-ray scan of their three suitcases, the officials found 15 pieces of rhino horns, weighing 7.4kg in total, with a street value of about 15 million baht. The three suspects said in an interrogation that they were hired for 32,000 baht each to deliver the rhino horns from Angola, where they worked, to Hanoi.

Source: Bangkok Post September 24, 2017 06:01 UTC