Huge yaba haul in Nakhon Phanom
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Border Patrol Police officers yesterday seized more than 300,000 yaba (methamphetamine) pills worth Bt100 million near the bank of the Mekong River in Nakhon Phanom province.
The officers said they set up a checkpoint and patrolled areas in tambon Ajsamart in Muang district after being tipped off that a drug gang would be transporting a large amount of the drug from a neighbouring country past an island in the Mekong River to the tambon. They found a long-tail boat belonging to the suspects near the border in that area, but when the suspects saw them, they rushed back into Laos.
They found a bag hidden in dense weeds near the area where the suspects were spotted. It contained 305,600 yaba tablets.
