700kg of drugs seized in eastern Myanmar

Two suspects were arrested for the case and charged under the country's Narcotics Drug and Psychotropic Substance Law. - Eleven Media Group/ANN

YANGON: Myanmar authorities have seized 500kg of methamphetamine and 200kg of ketamine in a recent operation in eastern Myanmar, the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control said on Wednesday (June 12).

Acting on a tip-off, anti-narcotics police searched a vehicle in Kengtung township of the eastern Shan state last Saturday, and seized the drugs, the committee said.