YANGON, May 14 (NNN-MNA) – Myanmar authorities have seized 26.4 kilograms of heroin, in the country’s central region of Mandalay, the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control reported, late Friday.
Acting on a tipoff, anti-narcotics police searched the sacks being transferred from one vehicle to another, at a bus station in Mandalay on May 7. They confiscated 26.4 kg of heroin in soap containers.
Five suspects were arrested for the case. The seized narcotics are worth about 660 million kyats (over 314,285 U.S. dollars), the report said.
The suspects were charged under the country’s Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, and further investigations were underway, it said.– NNN-MNA
