CHON BURI - Customs officials seized about three tonnes of elephant tusks smuggled from Africa found hidden inside timber consignments in two shipping containers at Laem Chabang port. Customs director-general Phantong Loykulnanta told reporters at the port on Monday that officials impounded 469 elephant tusks weighing 3.04 tonnes, 66.20 kilogrammes of elephant tusk fragments, 0.18kg of elephant tusk tail hair and a lion's carcass last month.