Airport customs in Bangkok found a two-month-old tiger stashed in a bag, filled with stuffed tiger toys, which was checked-in for an international passenger flight, authorities said on Friday.
The dazed and drugged cub was concealed in an oversized bag packed with the toys and bound for Iran when it was discovered by Thai authorities using an x-ray machine at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport earlier this week.
A 31-year-old Thai woman was detained for questioning and was unable to explain why there was a real tiger in the bag.
“The woman trying to check in the oversized bag denied any knowledge of the tiger. She said she was carrying it for someone else,” Nirat Nipanand, an airport customs official in charge of tracking animal, told Reuters.
