THAILAND: Police have saved 88 macaques from being turned into dinner following a routine interception of a pickup truck believed to be stolen and bearing fake licence plates.
14 monkeys found dead after routine police seizure of pickup with fake plates in Prachin Buri
published : 28 May 2021 at 20:50
15 A macaque in deteriorating condition is one of 88 trafficked monkeys found alive in a pickup truck bound for the Cambodian border and seized in Prachin Buri on Thursday. (Crime Suppression Division photo)
Police have saved 88 macaques from being turned into dinner following a routine interception of a pickup truck believed to be stolen and bearing fake licence plates.
Crime Suppression Division (CSD) investigators and officers from the Si Maha Phot station in Prachin Buri had no idea that their operation on Thursday would end in such dramatic fashion.