CHIANG MAI: Six drug smugglers were killed and 300 kilogrammes of ketamine seized in a clash between soldiers and armed men in Fang district, which borders Shan State in Myanmar, on Monday.
Maj Gen Suparerk Sathapornpol, commander of the army’s Pha Muang Force, said a patrol of rangers from the 3rd Army’s operations centre and troops from the 4th Cavalry early on Monday spotted 15-20 armed men carrying backpacks walking through forest near Ban Pang Tong village in tambon Mon Pin, Fang district.
The parol called on them to stop for a search, and they responded with gunfire. The soldiers…