Malaysian authorities say they've seized 23 pieces of elephant tusks and 301 kilograms of pangolin scales believed to have been smuggled from Africa in a haul worth over £700,000.

Customs senior official Mohamad Pudzi Man said officials raided the Kuala Lumpur airport cargo warehouse and found the ivory in two boxes marked as "food stuff."

The ivory, worth almost £50,000, was flown in on an Etihad Airways flight from Lagos and transited in Abu Dhabi before arriving in Kuala Lumpur.

Later, officials confiscated six sacks of pangolin scales worth over $650,000 shortly after it arrived on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Congo.

Mohamad Pudzi said no one was arrested, but the case is under investigation.