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Wild animal carcasses found at Nong Khai market

Wild animal carcasses found at Nong Khai market

Nong Khai Wildlife Checkpoint officials intercepted scores of carcasses of wild animals, including squirrels, civets, mouse deers and a barking deer, in sacks at a Ban Peng Chan border market on Sunday morning.

They suspect that the six sacks containing the bodies of eight shrew-faced ground squirrels, 59 smoky flying squirrels, one barking deer, five mouse deers, three red giant flying squirrels, one spotted giant flying squirrel, and three civets were smuggled across the Mekong River into Thailand for sale.

Wild animal carcasses found at Nong Khai market
It is believed that the vendor or vendors spotted state officials patrolling the market in Nong Khai’s Rattana Wapee district, so they left the goods in the sacks and ran away.
 Officials noticed the unattended sacks and opened them to find the carcasses.

Wild animal carcasses found at Nong Khai market

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