Five suspected poachers were arrested with weapons from Bardiya National Park on Monday.
Assistant conservation officer at the park Ashok Kumar Bhandari said that the Nepal Army patrol arrested Netra Shumsher JBR, Sanjaya Malla and Bishnu Maharjan of Kathmandu along with Miya Tharu and Budharam Tharu of Magaragadi in Bardiya with two guns and 44 bullets.
The arrestees told the park officials that they came to the area to hunt wild boars.
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