The police have arrested two Thai men in their 20s along with 700kg of crystal methamphetamine or "ice" worth Bt2 billion in street value in Ayuthaya province, as the pair were transporting the illicit drugs hidden among farm produce from the north, deputy national police chief General Chalermkiat Srivorakan told the press on Thursday.

Nakhon Phanom’s provincial administration on Tuesday set fire to 8,700 kilograms of seized marijuana to mark the “International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking”.