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.

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