KUNMING, June 25 (Xinhua): Chinese and Lao police have jointly cracked a cross-border drug trafficking case, arresting two suspects and seizing a massive 1.44 tonnes of methamphetamine tablets worth more than US$800 million, according to an announcement by the officials.
Yunnan provincial public security department announced that police in Yunnan had noticed traffickers intended to smuggle large quantities of drugs through the Mekong River basin, and immediately coordinated with law enforcement authorities of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand.