One suspect has been arrested while seven suspects fled from the scene after officials discovered 24 elephant tusks in a car at Katima Mulilo on Friday. The ivory was discovered during an operation by the Namibian Police, officials from the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, and Namibian Defence Force members, who were stopping vehicles suspected to be used to smuggle wildlife products. The operation was carried out on the back of information about a syndicate of Zambian nationals using the Zambezi region as a transit route to smuggle the tusks of poached elephants from Botswana to Zambia.