Fateful trial: The eight heroin smugglers (in blue) standing in the witness stand of a court room in Hanoi. — AFP
Hanoi: Vietnam has sentenced eight drug traffickers to death for smuggling 300kg of heroin to China, some of it in gas cylinders, according to state media.
The cartel was convicted of smuggling drugs across the border between 2004 and 2015, according to a report on Thursday in the An Ninh Thu Do newspaper, the official mouthpiece of the Hanoi police.
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