14 Pythons Seized from Passenger from Thailand at Chennai Airport

Chennai: Fourteen python snakelets were seized by the Chennai Airport Customs officials on Tuesday from a passenger coming from Bangkok, Thailand. The snakes were hidden in a large plastic basket in his luggage.

The transporter of these pythons was a 27-year-old male hailing from Tamil Nadu.

The Union Wildlife Protection Crime Squad rushed to the Chennai airport and examined the snakelets.

Among the seized snakelets, there were 12 milk pythons, a type of python, and 2 kings snakes.

Chennai airport customs officials arrested the passenger. The seized snakes will be sent back to Thailand on a Thai Airways passenger flight from Chennai to Bangkok.