Songkhla zookeeper in spotlight over missing rare animals
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published : 23 Jan 2021 at 05:00
5 One of the two rare albino barking deer that went missing from Songkhla Zoo last February.
The Zoological Park Organisation of Thailand (ZPOT) is pursuing action against a zookeeper over exotic animals which have gone missing from Songkhla Zoo.
The news was revealed on Friday by a fact-finding committee appointed by the environment minister to explain the disappearance of two rare albino barking deer.
The case made headlines in October, when Suriya Saengpong, the director-general of ZPOT, was shot dead by a zoo veterinarian as he went to follow up on the case of the missing deer at Songkhla Zoo.