Mekong stakeout nets 480 kilos of marijuana
Army troops seized 480 kilograms of marijuana smuggled across the Mekong River from Laos into Nakhon Phanom’s That Phanom district on Tuesday night. None of the drug runners was arrested.
Acting on a tip-off, a unit of troops from the Army’s drug suppression centre at That Phanom staked out the Mekong River bank in Ban Kham Phak Praew in Tambon Nam Kam. At 8.20PM they spotted a boat from Laos approaching before almost a dozen men began unloading bags from the boat onto the river bank. The troops then emerged from hiding but the smugglers fled into the darkness, leaving the bags behind.
Soldiers examining the bags found 480 one-kilo bars of compressed, dried marijuana inside.
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