KUNMING, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Police in the county of Maguan, southwest China's Yunnan Province, have arrested four suspects for smuggling 13 water buffalos, according to local police.

The police caught a suspect and intercepted seven smuggled water buffalos in a van during a routine check at around 7 p.m. on Saturday. A further three suspects and six water buffalos were found during a check Sunday.

The suspects confessed that the buffalos were smuggled into China from Vietnam.

The two cases are under investigation.