Thai police seize drugs worth $33 million
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Large quantities of heroin were among the haul discovered by Thai police in Chiang Rai
(Reuters)
Thai authorities have seized illegal drugs including heroin and methamphetamines worth an estimated $US33 million that are believed to have been smuggled from Burma, officials said on Thursday.
A military border taskforce, acting on a tip-off, said it set up a checkpoint in northern Chiang Rai province late on Wednesday.
Troops tried to stop a suspicious pickup truck but it managed to get away.
The vehicle and the drugs – including 95kg of crystal methamphetamine and 3.4kg of heroin – were later found abandoned. The suspects have not been caught.
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