Tens of thousands of violent children’s toys smuggled from China were detected and seized following a surprise raid by the Ho Chi Minh City market management agency on the warehouse of a company in District 6 on Tuesday.

The two-story house, located in a small alley on Hau Giang Street, was packed with 129 cartons of toys when the team arrived, officers said.

Each carton contained hundreds of toys in the shapes of guns, swords, action figures, and puzzles, none of which bear safety stamps.

As many as 50 cartons contained guns, and there were two cartons of swords, accounting for nearly half of the confiscated products, according to officers.

The products all originated from China.

Vo Van Anh, the owner of the warehouse, failed to show any papers relevant to the products, or the business license for his facility.

Products from the warehouse will be distributed to toy shops and markets in District 5 and 6, according to Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper.

This is the largest crackdown on smuggled Chinese toys so far this year, the newspaper quoted an officer as saying.