Five very rare and endangered grey shanked douc langurs shot dead in Vietnam; cop starts incident on incident

HANOI, Oct 18 (dpa): Authorities in central Vietnam have launched an investigation after five rare grey shanked douc langurs were shot dead by poachers, a forest ranger said on Monday.

Police and forest rangers encountered a group of poachers while patrolling through a forest outside Kon Doc village, located in a remote area of Vietnam’s central highlands around seven hours south of Da Nang, Ngo Vinh Phong, a senior forestry official in Quang Ngai province, said.