Laos makes third-biggest meth seizure with 33 million pills worth millions of dollars

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BANGKOK, Sept 25, 2022 (AFP): Laos police have made their third-biggest single seizure of illegal drugs by netting 33 million methamphetamine pills, a United Nations official said Saturday evening (Sept 24).

In recent years the reclusive communist nation has become a gateway for traffickers moving meth out of Myanmar's troubled Shan state across the Mekong River into Thailand as a way to circumvent Thai patrols.