Vietnam seizes 30kg of drugs transported from Cambodia; confirms 8 imported Covid-19 cases


A man and a child get a free haircut along the Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi. Vietnam has gone through 86 straight days without any new confirmed Covid-19 cases reported in the community, according to its government. - AFP

HO CHI MINH CITY, Nov 28 (Xinhua): Police of southern Vietnam's An Giang province have confiscated over 30 kg of ketamine transported from Cambodia to the country, Vietnam News Agency has reported.

A 60-year-old local man was caught red-handed transporting 10.4 kg of ketamine near the Cambodia-Vietnam border in Tinh Bien district on Thursday afternoon, said the report. He confessed that he was hired to carry a cylindrical box crossing the border without knowing about the drug inside.

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