Army foils bid to smuggle 207kg of cannabis at Thai border


KOTA BARU: The vigilance of the Malaysian Army once again paid off when it successfully thwarted an attempt to smuggle 207kg of compressed cannabis worth more than RM600,000 in the Sungai Golok area along the Malaysia-Thailand border.

The Malaysian Second Infantry Division (2 Div), in a statement Thursday (Aug 22), said the incident occurred at 12.45pm when a patrol team under the responsibility of the Eighth Infantry Brigade encountered four men transferring items from a boat to the riverbank on the Malaysian side.

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