Smugglers use floating petrol drums to evade authorities


KOTA BHARU: Smugglers have devised a new tactic of floating petrol-filled drums in a chain across Sungai Golok to evade authorities at the Malaysia-Thailand border.

The Second Infantry Division, in a statement, said this method was discovered after a 42-year-old man was arrested with 24 empty petrol drums during a surveillance operation at 1.50am on Tuesday (March 11).

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