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Two people were killed and 195 kilograms of “ice” was seized on Friday after a gunfight with 15 armed men in Chiang Rai’s Doi Charakhae area.

Indicating the vast scale of Thailand’s drugs trade, the Defence Ministry says that during the first half of this year authorities seized over 200 million methamphetamine pills, more than 5 tonnes of crystal meth and 7 tonnes of marijuana. 

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tested more than 16 tonnes of narcotics – including 12 tonnes of methamphetamine pills – on Tuesday before the drugs get destroyed.

More than 250 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine were confiscated after being smuggled across the Mekong River to Thailand’s Mukdahan province, police said on Friday.

Police seized more than 6 million methamphetamine pills and 444 kilograms of crystal meth, or “ice”, from a house in Ayutthaya after a drug suspect was arrested at a drink-driving checkpoint in Bangkok late Sunday night.

A man was arrested with 66.03 grams of crystal meth or “ice” and 1,200 methamphetamine pills at an apartment in Bangkok’s Thon Buri district on Tuesday.

Police have seized a total of eight million methamphetamine pills, 2,070 grams of crystal meth or "ice" and 1,546 grams of cocaine – with an estimated street value of Bt800 million - from three recent drug busts.

Police in recent months seized a large haul of narcotics, including more than 200 kilograms of crystal meth – or “ice” – and 1,792,000 methamphetamine pills, in two separate drug busts, deputy national police chief General Chalermkiat Srivorakan told a press conference at the Narcotics Suppression Bureau in Bangkok on Tuesday.

The Police Narcotics Suppression Bureau recently made seven drug busts that netted 10 suspects and resulted in the confiscation of 10 million methamphetamine pills and nearly four kilograms of heroin.

A Shan State man from Myanmar was arrested after troops intercepted his pickup truck and found 300kg of crystal meth on Wednesday night.

Army troops and police arrested a suspect and seized 1.1 million methamphetamine pills and 28 kilograms of crystal meth in Phatthalung's Kong Lar district on Friday.

A Chiang Mai woman, known as an “angel” for helping poor children, has been arrested in Phrae for allegedly smuggling 1.642 million methamphetamine pills and 10 kilograms of crystal meth.