Thai forces shoot dead 9 drug runners
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A gunfight between Thai security forces and a band of Golden Triangle drug smugglers left nine traffickers dead, a senior official said yesterday, the latest clash sparked by the booming regional trade in narcotics.
Narongsak Osotthanakorn, governor of northern Chiang Rai province, said the firefight broke out on Saturday evening 2 kilometers inside Thailand from the border with Myanmar.
“Authorities told them to halt but they refused and started shooting. The two sides exchanged fire for 10 minutes leaving nine smugglers killed and the rest fled,” he said, adding the smuggling group was originally 15 people strong.
Some 700,000 methamphetamine tablets were found alongside semi-automatic rifles, he added.
The Golden Triangle, a region in the borderlands of Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and southern China, is the world’s second largest drug-producing region after Latin America.
Huge quantities of opium, heroin and methamphetamine pills are churned out in remote jungle labs each year for the Asia market and beyond.
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