The forested area where the fierce clash between rangers and drug runners took place last night and the drugs seized. Photos: Naewna

 

TNR Staff

 

A GUNFIGHT broke out between drug traffickers carrying methamphetamine pills in backpacks and a team of rangers just a kilometre from the Thai-Myanmar border at Mae Ai district of Chiang Mai province Tuesday night (Oct. 4), Naewna newspaper said this morning.

 

Maj. Gen. Supharek Sathapornphon, commander of Pha Muang Task Force of the 3rd army region, sent a team of rangers to patrol the border at Doi Lang mountain in Mae Ai district.

 

As the team walked through a forested area high up the mountain in Ban Na Ma-Uen area they ran into a group of 30 men with 25 carrying knapsacks and the five others armed. The rangers sent a signal to stop for a search but the drug runners immediately opened fire at them leading to a clash.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2022/10/05/big-lot-of-meth-pills-seized-in-clash-with-drug-runners-at-border/

 

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11 hours ago, webfact said:

As the team walked through a forested area high up the mountain in Ban Na Ma-Uen area they ran into a group of 30 men with 25 carrying knapsacks and the five others armed. The rangers sent a signal to stop for a search but the drug runners immediately opened fire at them leading to a clash

Sending a signal isn't always the best ambush technique.