HANOI, Vietnam, Nov 11 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam’s northern Dien Bien province Police, detained two local drug traffickers, confiscating 220 cakes of heroin weighing 77 kg, it was reported on Sunday.
The male detainees, aged 28 and 31, were caught red-handed, trading the drug in the province’s Dien Bien district on Saturday noon. They confessed that they had bought the drug in Laos and sold them in Vietnam.
According to Vietnamese law, those convicted of smuggling over 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kg of methamphetamine are punishable by death.
Making or trading 100 grams of heroin or 300 grams of other illegal drugs also faces the death penalty.– NNN-VNA
