Environmental police in Vietnam have seized a frozen tiger and the remains of another big cat, believed to be a panther, and arrested two people in the latest of a series of poaching cases.
"We also confiscated two sets of animal bones, suspected of being from tigers," an environmental police officer said, in the central province of Nghe An.
The officer did not give details about where the animals were believed to be from, their suspected destination or when the seizure occurred, but added that two people had been arrested.
Police made several similar seizures last year in Vietnam, where only about 50 tigers remain in the wild.
Asia's rapid urbanisation has threatened the natural habitat of tigers, which are illegally hunted for fur and body parts used in traditional medicine.
A World Wildlife Fund Malaysia conservationist earlier this year cited evidence that hunters from Thailand and Vietnam were setting wildlife traps in Malaysia - a country which is trying to double its population of wild tigers to 1,000.
Source: AFP