Border guards in the central province of Thanh Hoa in coordinationwith Lao security forces have arrested five Lao people processing andtrafficking drugs to Vietnam.
According to Colonel LeKha Cong, director of the Thanh Hoa force’s drug and crime preventionoffice, they busted the ring in Sam Neua district, Laos ’s northernprovince of Houaphan, on April 3.
A total of eight cakes ofheroin powder, 1,250 amphetamine tablets, two flint-locks, 20 fuses,9,800 USD and over 43.5 million Kip were confiscated.
Thefive had purchased heroin powder from Myanmar and Lao northernprovinces , and then smuggled to Vietnam for consumption andtrafficking to other countries.
The Lao side is dealing with the case.-VNA