Anti-narcotics officials and Nakhon Si Thammarat provincial police seized 52 kilogrammes of heroin and 300,000 methamphetamine tablets worth altogether about 200 million baht in Nakhon Si Thammarat on Thursday.

Two Malaysians and a Thai national were arrested. They were identified as Manote Bainawee, a native of Satun province; Jeffrey bin Embai and Chun Kib-lee bin Ismael, both residents of Penang in Malaysia.

Pol Lt-Gen Thesa Sirivatho, commissioner of 8th Region Provincial Police Bureau, said Tham Panrao district police manning a road block on Highway No 41 stopped a black Toyota Altis for a search after they became suspicious of the men in the car, Manote, the driver, and Embai.

A thorough search of the car uncovered illicit drugs hidden in secret compartment. Further investigation led the police and narcotics officials to the arrest of Chun Kib-lee at a house in Nakhon Si Thammarat and the uncovering of more narcotic drugs. 70,000 ringgits in cash were also found in a safe in the house.

Police said that the drug consignment was intended to be smuggled through Satun to the destination in Penang.

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