GIA LAI — The claim that lumberjacks attacked officials of the management board of the northeast Chư Păh preventive forest to rob logs was untrue. This was stated by Colonel Phan Lang, deputy director of Gia Lai Province’s police, while talking to the media on Thursday. Earlier, local media reported that before the Tết (Lunar New Year) holidays at the end of January, the Chư Păh forest management board caught two people red-handed transporting timber out of the forest using two oxen. There were at least 73 logs, each one 3.5 to 4m long, lying in forest zone No 174. Local police said the loggers did not use guns to threaten officials to steal the logs.

Source: Viet Nam News February 10, 2017 08:40 UTC