Sea of meth worth US$100mil seized as Myanmar army smashes three drug labs


Foreign military attachés checking drugs in a football ground where seized drugs, vehicles, laboratory accessories and precursor chemicals are being displayed to be witnessed by invited military attachés and journalists in Kawnghka at Shan State on Saturday (March 7). US$100mil worth of drugs and related items were seized this year during a special operation held to crack down drugs trafficking, a military spokesperson said. - AFP

KAWANGHKA: Sacks of heroin and methamphetamine are laid out in endless rows in a remote Myanmar border zone during a rare raid in the heart of South-East Asia's infamous 'Golden Triangle'.

The seizure in one of the world's biggest narcotics-producing regions put three major laboratories out of business this week and hauled in 43 million meth tablets.

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