Thirty-six illegal loggers accused of operating along the Cambodia-Thailand border have been arrested by provincial border police in Oddar Meanchey during a weeklong crackdown.

Police also confiscated 12 axes, four chainsaws and 24 logs of rosewood, said Tum Sareun, provincial border police chief.

“We have already sent them and the evidences to the provincial police station in order to solve it constitutionally,” he said.

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