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Vietnamese airport officials discovered 700 snakes labeled "live fish" on a flight that arrived from Indonesia, Australia’s News Limited reported on Friday.

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"The snakes were alive when they were found in the cargo," a quarantine officer at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport told News Limited. "Seven hundred snakes were later destroyed when no one claimed ownership."

The container was found on a Thai Airways flight TG 682.