Kompas.com, Rabu, 8
Desember 2010 | 12:18 WIB
An Etihad Airways passenger jet flies over houses as it prepares to land at Heathrow Airport in west London on April 21, 2010. (Reuters) |
ABU DHABI, KOMPAS.com - A Saudi who flew in from Jakarta with snakes, parrots and a squirrel in his hand luggage has been arrested at Abu Dhabi airport, Emirati dailies reported on Tuesday.
“The man
was just about to board a plane at the capital’s airport when a member of staff
noticed that something was moving inside a box he was carrying,” said an
English-language paper, 7Days.
“The
passenger was taken to one side and asked to open up his luggage, and inside
were four snakes, two parrots and a squirrel, all alive and separated in
different compartments inside the box,” it added.
The
National said the Saudi, booked on Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways and whose final
destination was another unspecified Arab country, “was caught at the first
security checkpoint” after landing in the Emirati capital on Thursday.
“Carrying
animals on board is strictly prohibited. In this case, other passengers’ safety
was at risk,” Khamis al-Marar, Abu Dhabi’s acting chief of security affairs and
ports, was quoted as saying.
He told
7Days that “the passenger had no certificates or documentation for the animals.
And we didn’t know if they were rare animals or if they could have had
diseases.”
Licensed
animals have to travel in specially designed boxes, stored in the aircraft’s
hold, he said in The National, also an English-language daily.
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