NAKHON PHANOM: Authorities have seized almost some 950,000 speed pills worth over 100 million baht abandoned by a drug gang along the Mekong River in Tha Uthen district.
Navy officers found three sacks containing 954,000 methamphetamine pills on the river bank at Ban Paktuay village in Tha Uthen district on Tuesday morning, said senior navy officers during a media briefing. The seized drugs were estimated to be worth at least 100 million baht.
The seizure followed an investigation that smugglers had shifted the transit route of drug smuggling from the North to the Northeast during the Covid-19 situation and large quantities of…