At
least Seven people have been nabbed by the police for poisoning 233 swans in
north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, local authorities said on
Friday.
The
police spent nine days searching for the suspects and had caught them in
Beijing and Tianjin municipalities as well as the provinces of Jilin and Hebei
as of Thursday, according to the information office of Zhenglan Banner in
Xilingol League.
The
swans were found dead in a lake in Zhenglan Banner where migrating swans had
stopped in late October. Tests revealed that they were poisoned with
carbofuran, a type of pesticide, which was detected on the dead birds.
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