Bones, furs of rare animals found in Chinese flat

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Sun Aug 5, 11:18 PM ET

 

 

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police seized 104 furs of rare wild

animals and several skeletons piled up in an apartment, the largest

seizure of its kind since 1949, state media said on Monday.

 

Police raided a flat in Linxia in the central province of Gansu where

they found the remains of bears, snow leopards, clouded leopards and

lynxes, Xinhua news agency said.

 

The tenant " had been buying the furs and bones from Qinghai and Tibet

since last November and made a profit of 4,000 yuan ($520) by selling

two snow leopard furs, " the agency said.

 

Bones of exotic animals are an ingredient of traditional Chinese

medicine.

 

Xinhua did not say what charges Ma would face, but poachers and

smugglers of protected animals face long jail terms in China.

 

Police said this was the largest seizure of snow leopard furs since

the Communists came to power in 1949.

 

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