Two-tonne meth shipment busted off Sumatra

Local autho­ri­ties seized about two tonnes of methamphetamine off Sumatra island in the biggest seizure of drugs in the country’s history, its narcotics agency said.

The agency linked the drugs to a syndicate in the Golden Triangle – an area where northeastern Myanmar meets parts of Thailand and Laos, which has a long history of producing drugs for distribution as far as Japan and New Zealand.