Thailand Seizes $33m Drugs Haul from Burma
September 08, 2011
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Bangkok. Thai authorities have seized illegal drugs including heroin and methamphetamine worth an estimated $33 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 95 kilos (209 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine and 3.4 kilos of heroin -- were later found abandoned. The suspects have not been caught.
It was an unusually large seizure, believed to be worth about 1.0 billion baht ($33 million).
Burma is the world’s second-largest opium producer after Afghanistan and ethnic minority armed rebels in the east of the nation are believed to be major heroin and methamphetamine traffickers.
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