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Aussie Customs finds parcels with snakes and scorpions

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Customs officers in Melbourne found snakes, spiders and scorpions in two shoe boxes mailed from Europe last month .

The parcels included six vipers from South-east Asia, three ball pythons, nine tarantulas from South America and Asian forest scorpions.

Investigators believe they were destined for the black market, to be sold as pets.

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