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Customs officials in Vietnam have discovered a ton of live snakes on a plane.

The illegal cargo, on board a Thai Air flight from Bangkok, was hidden inside 60 ice boxes marked "fresh fish".

"Who knows what would have happened if they had broken out and crawled around the plane when it was flying?" said Dao Van Lien, head of customs at Hanoi airport.

"It's an amazing number of snakes," Mr Lien added, explaining that there were too many for his staff to count.

The non-venomous rat snakes may have been destined for restaurant kitchens in China or Vietnam, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Many died on the journey but the survivors are now at the Wild Animal Rescue Centre, near Hanoi.