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Bangla: New struggle for rescued tiger cubs
The Asian Age
Mumbai
14 Jun 2012

Three Two Month Old tiger cubs rescued in the Bangladesh capital this week from smugglers are frail and have been disturbed by hundreds of curious visitors, vets said on Wednesday.

Security forces rescued the cubs from a house on Monday in a raid the saw one man arrested. They have since been transferred to a private zoo in Dhaka where inexperienced wildlife officials are doing their best to care for them.

"The cubs are very weak and scared. They seemed to in sound health when they were rescued, said the forest Department`s veterinary surgeon Zahed Malekur Rahman, who is now looking after them.