Over 100kg drugs worth RM8.4mil seized in southern Myanmar

YANGON (Xinhua): Myanmar authorities have seized 100kg of methamphetamine and 13kg of ketamine in a recent operation in southern Myanmar, the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control reported on Sunday.

Acting on a tip-off, anti-narcotics police searched a truck in Waw Township in Bago Region on April 25, and seized the drugs worth over 3.7 billion kyats (US$1.76 million ), along with four mobile phones, according to the committee.

Three suspects involved in the case have been charged under the country's Narcotics Drug and Psychotropic Substance Law, it said. - Xinhua