Smuggled tortoises returned to Tanzania amid wildlife trafficking crackdown

One of the luckier Radiated tortoises is prepared for its journey to Tanzania. Picture: Ujjwal Meghi/Interpol/via AP

More than a hundred baby tortoises, most of them dead, have been returned to Tanzania from Thailand as evidence in a case against a wildlife smuggling network, Interpol said.

The 116 tortoises were discovered hidden in the luggage of a Ukrainian woman at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport more than two years ago, the international police organisation added.