BUKIT KAYU HITAM: A total of 21 tonnes of smuggled rice worth RM42,400 has been seized and a 19-year-old godown caretaker arrested in the Bukit Kayu Hitam Industrial Area here.
A team of nine Anti-Smuggling Unit (UPP) officers raided the godown, which was a former latex collection centre, about 2km from the Malaysia-Thailand border at about 1.30pm on Tuesday, said Kedah UPP chief Abdul Latif Abdul Rahman.
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