Speed Smuggler Shot Dead, 200,000 Pills Seized

[Jai Dee]

Speed smuggler shot dead, 200,000 pills seized

Chiang Mai _ A drug smuggler was killed and 200,000 methamphetamine pills were seized after a gang of drug traffickers clashed with a task force at the Thai-Burma border in Wiang Haeng district yesterday. The 10-minute gunfight took place about a kilometre from the Thai border when the Naresuan Task Force encountered an unidentified armed force.

After the clash, the authorities found the dead body of one of the drug smugglers, said to be ethnic Wa, and 200,000 speed pills inside an abandoned backpack, and an AK-47 assault rifle. Maj-Gen Surachet Chaiwong, the task force chief, said the gang consisted of 4-5 members.

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