Packages of dried marijuana, 635 kilogrammes in total, on display at the Mekong Riverine Unit offices in Nakhon Phanom’s Ban Phaeng district. It was seized from an abandoned pickup on the Mekong river bank in Tha Uthen district early on Monday morning. (Photo: Pattanapong Sripiachai)
NAKHON PHANOM: A patrol of the Mekong Riverine Unit seized 635 kilogrammes of compressed marijuana on the bank of the Mekong river in Tha Uthen district in the small hours of Monday.
The patrol spotted a pickup covered with canvas on the bank of the Mekong river near Ban Lao Nad village in tambon Phayom.
Patrol members searched the truck and found 15 black plastic bags containing 635 packages of dried marijuana, each about 1kg.
The vehicle was abandoned. The smugglers were believed to have fled shortly before the…
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