109 wild animals found in luggage at airport
published : 28 Jun 2022 at 09:29
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
Wildlife officials at Suvarnabhumi airport on Monday arrested two Indian women after 109 live wild animals were found in their baggage before they boarded a plane to India.
The chief of the wildlife checkpoint at Suvarnabhumi said the animals were found when officials x-rayed the women's two suitcases.
The bags contained two white porcupines, two armadillos, 35 turtles, 50 lizards and 20 snakes.
The suitcases belonged to two Indian women - Nithya Raja, 38, and Zakia Sulthana Ebrahim, 24 - who were to leave Suvarnabhumi airport on a Thai Airways flight to Chennai airport in India.
The women were detained and charged with violating the Wildlife Conservation and Protection Act of 2019, the Animal Disease Act of 2015 and the Customs Act of 2017.
They were handed over to the Suvarnabhumi airport police station for legal action.
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Vocabulary
- Act: a law passed by a country’s government - กฎหมาย
- checkpoint: a place where people are stopped and questioned and vehicles are examined, especially at a border between two countries - ด่านตรวจ
- detained: kept in a place and not allowed to leave - กักตัว ควบคุมตัวหรือฝากขัง
- legal: relating to the law or lawyers - เกี่ยวกับกฎหมาย
- luggage (noun): baggage; all the cases and bags that you take with you when you travel - กระเป๋าเดินทาง
- porcupine (noun): an animal covered with long stiff parts like needles (called quills ), which it can raise to protect itself when it is attacked - เม่น
- violate: to do something that is against a law, rule or agreement - ฝ่าฝืน, ละเมิด
