Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT

Myanmar busts huge quantity of drugs


(MENAFN) The Home Ministry declared that Myanmar authorities have captured a huge quantity of narcotic drugs in Moemeik of Kachin state and Ma Bein in Shan state.

The value of the busted drugs reached 4.624 billion kyats (3.08 million U.S. dollars), as the raid was carried out by a joint force of anti-drug squad on Saturday when a Mitshubishi Triton car was blocked on Moemeik-Mabein road, discovering some heroin weighing 2.21 kg and 2.29 million tablets of stimulants hidden in 221 soap cups.

Further search into a house in Mabein, Shan unveiled more illegal drugs.

Some 74,180 more stimulant drug tablets of a 222.54 million kyats (148,360 U.S. dollars) value were seized at a ward near a cinema in Insein, Yangon region on Friday.

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