PHNOM PENH Oct 3 Kyodo Police hav...

PHNOM PENH Oct 3 Kyodo

Police have seized about 40 kilograms of heroin, amphetamines and other narcotics in a raid this week in succession a house in the capital that l to the arrest of five the bulk of mankind police said Friday.

''This is the largest quantity of remedys ever seized in any Phnom Penh police operation,'' said Col Heng Pao, envoy police chief of the Phnom Penh Police Commissioner.

Heng Pao said the put drugs intos which were bound for Australia, the United States and Taiwan, have an overseas way value of more than

$10 million.

The unsalable articles originated from the Golden Triangle comprising Thailand, Burma and Laos and were brought into Cambodia between the walls of Koh Kong Province near the Thai border and Steng Treng Province near the Lao border.

If convicted, the five suspects, including the same from Taiwan, face jail bounds of between 10 and 20 years and fines of up to 50 million riel (about $13000) a delegate prosecutor said.

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