The Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department and the Aviation Security Centre of Tan Son Nhat International Airport have seized 1.1 kilogrammes of heroin.

The heroin was hidden in the luggage of D. Jason, a US national born in 1973, boarding a plane to Sydney, Australia.

Jason and the confiscated heroin were handed over to the Police Department for Investigation of Drug-related Crimes of the HCM City Police.-VNA