430kg of marijuana found near Mekong bank in Bueng Kan
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Troops and police seized 430 kilograms of marijuana found abandoned on a roadside near the banks of the Mekong River in Bueng Kan province’s Bueng Khong Long late on Friday night.
Lt Wirat Lapthaisong, chief of a special task force of the northeast border drug suppression centre, was alerted by an informant that a pile of bags had been spotted on a road in Moo 9 village in Tambon Dongbung in Bueng Khong Long at 11pm.
Wirat alerted the Bueng Khong Long police station and troops and police staked out at the spot, hoping to arrest anyone showing up to retrieve the bags.
But when no one had arrived by 5am on Saturday, police and troops checked the bags and found 430 bars of marijuana each weighing 1kg.
