Dimapur police apprehends 4 persons for smuggling pigs from Assam

Nine pigs were found dead inside the vehicle

Our Reporter
Dimapur, July 17 (EMN): A mobile unit of Dimapur police on Friday apprehended four persons from 3rd Mile area in Dimapur while they were smuggling 12 crossbred pigs, including dead ones from Assam.

Police sources said that the mobile unit intercepted the smugglers at around 1.30 pm; they are being kept at Diphupar police station.

The official in-charge of District Veterinary Hospital, Dr. KN Zubemo Humtsoe, informed that the pigs were being brought from Balijan in Assam and had entered Dimapur through ‘Borlengri Assam-Nagaland check gate’.

He said that nine of the pigs were found dead inside the vehicle.

According to him, post-mortem report suggested Classical Swine Fever (CSF) as the cause of death. The dead pigs will be disposed off at the municipal garbage dumping site while the live ones will be ‘quarantined for seven days for observation’.

Their serum samples will be tested in Kohima for suspected CSF, he added.

Humtsoe informed that in order to diagnose African Swine Fever (ASF), sample has to be sent to Guwahati in Assam, and the process will take approximately one week before results are declared.