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Brazil nabs man at airport with 200 birds in bag
25 Sep 2008 17:08:37 GMT
 Source: Reuters
BRASILIA, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Brazilian authorities detained a Portuguese man at Sao Paulo's international airport with 200 birds in his bag, police said on Thursday.

Customs officials found 65 of 200 Canary birds dead, the Agriculture Ministry said in a statement. Police will charge the man, who arrived from Peru and resides in Brazil, with animal trafficking, a federal police officer at the airport said.

The remaining live birds will be sent back to Peru by plane, in more humane conditions.

(Reporting by Raymond Colitt, Editing by Sandra Maler)


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