More than 3 tons of ivory with contraband

kampala - After the seizure of smuggled goods from the Congo, the Ugandan customs found more than 3 tons of ivory in a container. The officers have found 762 elephant tusks or parts of them with a...

Two other containers have not yet been emptied. The smugglers had hidden the ivory in large tree trunks and filled the cavities with wax and sawdust. Especially the laundry makes it difficult to empty the container, according to the spokesman.