Two women have been caught trying to smuggle hundreds of live animals onto a flight.
Suspected animal smugglers have been caught in Bangkok
Nithya Raja, 38, and Zakia Sulthana, 24, were caught carrying a host of animals - including 50 chameleons and 35 turtles - onto a flight from Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport on June 27.
Sathon Konggoen, the chief of the wildlife inspection office at the airport, said: "This kind of case has happened many times because the animals have expensive price tags in India.
"Animal trafficking is usually detected at the Thai-Myanmar borders and domestic airports to a certain extent."
The suspected wildlife smugglers were exposed when their luggage was put through an X-ray machine at the airport.