Aizawl, December 26: Mizoram police have seized two Colobus monkeys and a crocodile which were smuggled in from Myanmar, the police said on Monday.

Officials said that the alert police of Saiphai out-post in Kolasib District on Sunday night rescued the two Colobus monkeys and a crocodile, which were being ferried in a vehicle. Passenger From Bangkok Held at Chennai Airport With Live Animals, Including a Monkey, Pythons and King Snakes (Watch Video).

The police arrested the driver of the vehicle, Jakir Hussein Barbhuiya (35), a resident of Assam's Cachar district.

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