A 50-kilo boulder was used to smash the windscreen of a rented CABS patrol vehicle parked by the roadside in Delimara, the organisation said.

It said in a statement the incident occurred in the early hours as two CABS teams, in the company of ALE officers, were investigating reports of illegal hunting and trapping on the peninsula. CABS said that no one was injured.

“We can only assume that this cowardly attack is an act of is revenge on the part of bird poachers,” committee spokesman Axel Hirschfeld said.

Yesterday CABS bird guards recorded the illegal firing of some 300 shots at birds of prey and turtle doves to the east of Delimara. Police units alerted by CABS arrested two poachers.

CABS said this morning they successfully filmed a poacher with a weapon in his hand and caught a quail trapper red-handed at Ta´ Lombardi valley. Administrative Law Enforcement police are investigating both cases.