A passenger smuggling dozens of venomous vipers in checked-in baggage was stopped after flying into Mumbai, India, from Thailand, Indian customs officials said.

Blue pit vipers are some of the rarest of their species, according to the outlet. This isn’t the first – or last – walk on the wild side for customs officers in India. 4.

Man caught at airport with 52 live venomous snakes and exotic animals. Passenger from Bangkok found carrying Indonesian pit vipers, spider-tailed horned vipers and Asian leaf turtles in luggage ...

A passenger smuggling dozens of venomous vipers in checked-in baggage was stopped after flying into Mumbai, India, from Thailand, Indian customs officials said.

The snakes, which included 44 Indonesian pit vipers, were “concealed in checked-in baggage”, Mumbai Customs said in a statement late on Sunday. “An Indian national arriving from Thailand was ...

In 2019, officials at the Chennai airport seized a horned pit viper snake, five Iguanas, four blue-tongued skinks, three green tree frogs and 22 Egyptian tortoises from a man travelling from Thailand.

Authorities have seized spider-tailed horned vipers, Asian leaf turtles and Indonesian pit vipers from the passenger Authorities in India have arrested a man for trying to smuggle dozens of rare ...