Chinese nationals in Zimbabwe face deportation for slaughter of endangered tortoises

Zhang Hong Yuan, Chen Caijan, Lin Guibin and Shi Jiahua were arrested in a village in Bikita in southeastern Zimbabwe on Thursday, following a raid by the Zimbabwe National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ZNSPCA), the police and parks and wildlife authorities.

"When we raided the Chinese homestead, we also recovered 13 live tortoises, meat together with skeletal remains of a further 40 tortoises," said SZSPCA chairman Ed Lance.

"The four men are now detained pending deportation."

The animals were kept in steel drums without water or food. Villagers who gave statements to the police said the tortoises were dropped alive in boiling water to separate the shell and the flesh.

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