Lao police seize 36m speed pills
Haul is second-biggest on record in country and further evidence of shift in smuggling patterns
Police in Laos have made their second-biggest single seizure of illegal drugs, totalling 36 million methamphetamine pills, a United Nations official said on Saturday.
The raid in the northern province of Bokeo came three months after officers netted Asia’s biggest ever haul in the same area with 55 million speed pills found in a beer truck.
Laos is part of the Golden Triangle covering the border areas with Myanmar and Thailand that has for decades been a…