600 Contraband Birds Found on Lufthansa Jet
A bomb scare on a West German airliner led to the discovery of 600 contraband tropical birds in the plane’s cargo hold, airport officials said Tuesday.
The birds, including parrots and parakeets from the Amazon jungle, were discovered when police searched a Lufthansa airlines jet that landed in Rio de Janeiro on Monday during a flight from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt, they added.
No bomb was found and the flight continued normally after the 600 birds, worth an estimated $30,000, were taken off and put in the care of the Brazilian Forest Development Institute.
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