AUTHORITIES in Iloilo arrested two men and seized a truckload of endangered seashells worth P2.5 million during an operation in a remote village in Batad town.

Reports reaching Camp Crame over the weekend said the truck which came from Estancia town contained seashells that could fetch P1,500 a kilo in the international market.

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