Women caught 'trying to smuggle hundreds of live animals'
Two suspected animal smugglers have been caught in Bangkok.
Two women have been caught trying to smuggle hundreds of live animals onto a flight.
Nithya Raja, 38, and Zakia Sulthana, 24, were caught carrying a host of animals - including 50 chameleons and 35 turtles - onto a flight from Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport on June 27.
Sathon Konggoen, the chief of the wildlife inspection office at the airport, said: "This kind of case has happened many times because the animals have expensive price tags in India.
"Animal trafficking is usually detected at the Thai-Myanmar borders and domestic airports to a certain extent."
The suspected wildlife smugglers were exposed when their luggage was put through an X-ray machine at the airport.
