Vietnam cracks down on drug trafficking ring, seizing 220,000 synthetic drug pills


HANOI, March 11 (Xinhua): Police of northern Vietnam's Dien Bien province have arrested four drug smugglers and seized over 220,000 pills of synthetic drugs, weighing about 21.5 kg in total, Vietnam News Agency has reported.

Two smugglers were caught red-handed transporting some 180,000 pills or 16.7 kg of drugs in the locality.

They confessed that they were hired to transport the amount for a wage of 70 million Vietnamese dongs (US$3,100).

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