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Record ivory, rhino horn cache discovered in Mozambique

Police in Mozambique have seized 1.3 tonnes of elephant ivory and rhino horn -- the equivalent of 235 dead animals -- in the country's biggest ever find of illegal wildlife products, local media said Thursday.

A Chinese man was arrested on the outskirts of the capital Maputo at a house where the stash was stored, police said in a report published by the news agency AIM.

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