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Thailand: Six suspected drug smugglers killed by military

2023-01-10T06:37:22.030Z


The Thai army has killed six people suspected of smuggling ketamine near the border with Burma,... The Thai army has shot dead six people suspected of smuggling ketamine near the border with Burma, it announced on Tuesday (January 10th). The incident occurred overnight from Sunday to Monday in Chiang Mai province (north), near the " Golden Triangle ", a border area with Laos and Burma, known to be the central point of drug production in Southeast Asia for decades. 300 kilos of ketamine found


The Thai army has shot dead six people suspected of smuggling ketamine near the border with Burma, it announced on Tuesday (January 10th).

The incident occurred overnight from Sunday to Monday in Chiang Mai province (north), near the "

Golden Triangle

", a border area with Laos and Burma, known to be the central point of drug production in Southeast Asia for decades.

300 kilos of ketamine found

"

We are safe and sound but six

suspected traffickers" have lost their lives, said the Pha Muang special military detachment which monitors several border areas.

The army opened fire in response to shots from a group of "

15 to 20 suspicious men

", who had refused to be searched.

The shooting lasted about ten minutes, she said.

The soldiers found 300 kilograms of ketamine, an anesthetic with psychedelic effects increasingly used as a drug, distributed in 19 backpacks abandoned at the scene.

Three rifles and four cell phones were also recovered.

In the same province of Chiang Mai, in early December, the Thai military killed fifteen people suspected of smuggling crystal methamphetamine from Burma.

Source: lefigaro

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