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Jakarta, Indonesia. Airport bag scanning equipment has become the latest tool in the armoury of those trying to prevent the smuggling of animals and animal products.
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A recent attempt at smuggling a bag of snakes out of Malaysia was foiled because customs officers noticed that something was moving inside a bag.
And so the two men that tried to smuggle some 40 pythons out of Indonesia through Jakarta's Sukarno-Hatta oN Saturday decided to avoid wriggling bag syndrome by sedating the snakes.
But a bag of snakes looks like, well, a bag of snakes in the airport scanners which, for security reasons, are placed at the entrance to the departure hall.
Indonesian authorities say that the two Kuwaiti men were booked on a flight to Dubai which, they say, is a common routing or smuggled animals where they are sold to collectors or traders in the region.
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