BANGKOK, Oct 10 Kyodo The Thai ar...

BANGKOK, Oct 10 Kyodo

The Thai army onward Friday seized 8 million methamphetamine tablets from Myanmar at the Thai-Myanmar border town of Mae snipe some 500 kilometers northwest of Bangkok, military officials said.

Officials said village guards at Mae Gon Gan, located near the border with Myanmar, institute the methamphetamines inside 100 fertilizer sacks guarded according to a few Myanmar people who leap overed into the river to escape to Myanmar soil as promptly as they saw the guards.

The Thai military then opened troops to secure the border and seized the put drugs intos officials said.

It is still unclear which Myanmar cluster was guarding the sacks containing the methamphetamines.

However, more [i]or[/i] less 250-300 Myanmar soldiers and 80 members of a pro-Yangon ethnic Karen military dispose are positioned on Myanmar soil across from the village, according to the officials.

Thailand has in fresh years been faced with a rush of methamphetamine tablets from neighboring Myanmar.

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