Doesn't give much information but if most were surronded by ice water then I'm guessing this was a food shipment.
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Tonne of snakes on a plane to Vietnam
A Vietnam Airlines flight to Hanoi arrived from Bangkok with a tonne of live grass-snakes, Vietnam Net news agency reported on Friday.
Sixty bags marked “fresh fish,” marked for a fake address in Hanoi were inspected by customs officers who discovered the snakes on Thursday, the agency said.
Snakes are banned from being transported across regional borders into Vietnam; they were transferred to the Soc Son Wildlife Rescue Centre.
The agency quoted an official from the Noi Bai Goods Service Joint Stock Company as saying this is the first time live snakes have been discovered. Related agencies are seeking the snake senders and receivers.
Last Dec 19, Thai Airways transported more than 700 dead snakes from Indonesia to Vietnam, also registered as fresh fish. Customs officers didn’t discover the sender or receiver’s identities. The dead snakes were destroyed.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_....php?id=125254
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Ton of snakes seized on plane
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Authorities in Vietnam seized more than a ton of snakes on plane
The flight from Thailand was carrying 60 boxes filled with rat snakes
Officials said the shipment had been declared as live fish
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Authorities in Vietnam seized more than a ton of snakes that were smuggled in on an airplane from Thailand, officials said Friday.
Thousands of the nonvenomous rat snakes were shipped as cargo in 60 boxes on a Vietnam Airlines flight from Bangkok to Hanoi's Noi Bai airport Thursday, said airline spokesman Trinh Ngoc Thanh.
Thanh said the shipment had been declared as live fish.
Many of the snakes, which were surrounded by plastic filled with ice water, have died, said Nguyen Ba Oanh, director of the Wild Animal Rescue Center near Hanoi where the snakes were taken.
The reptiles each weighed between 200 grams (0.44 pounds) to 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds). The official Vietnam News Agency reported that the snakes, which are protected animals, may have been headed to another country.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapc....ap/index.html