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TN: Customs officials seize 93 exotic wildlife species from passenger at Madurai airport

Madurai (Tamil Nadu), Mar 20 (UNI) Customs sleuths have seized 93 exotic wildlife species from a passenger who arrived at Madurai airport in a Sri Lankan Airlines flight, official sources said on Thursday.
The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the customs department seized the species from a passenger, who arrived here from Bangkok via Colombo in Sri Lankan Airlines flight on Wednesday afternoon.
The seized species includes 53 tortoises, including 3 black tortoises, 11 varieties of snakes, 18 small iguanas, 7 chameleons and four lizards. The species were hidden in ventilated boxes in a luggage bag.
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