adminMOZAMBICAN police have seized over 76 kilos of rhinoceros horn at Maputo International Airport. Announcing the seizure at a press conference recently, the spokesperson for the Maputo City Police Command, Orlando Mudumane, said the horns were discovered in two suitcases, as they were being put on a flight to Kenya.
“The Mozambican police, in co-ordination with customs, seized two suitcases containing 76.6 kilos of rhinoceros horn and six kilos of lion claws and teeth,” said Mudumane. The owner of the suitcases and their illicit contents has not yet been identified.
Since both African species of rhinoceros, the white and the black, are believed to be extinct in southern Mozambique, it is more than likely that the rhinos from which these horns were taken were poached in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. — AIM
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