Rodents beware: Jakarta offers cash reward for live rats in vermin clampdown

September 19,2024

Samin climbed down into the darkness of the sewer, home-made catapult in hand. He wasn’t using stones this time, concerned they might kill his prey. Instead he formed small balls from damp mud, just enough to stun the rats and get them into a rusty wire cage. The plan was to smoke them out. He threw a fistful of lit rags down the tunnel and waited..
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