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Narcotics police detail busts, fatal shooting of suspect

BANGKOK: Narcotics suppression officials seized 6.4 million methamphetamine pills, 300 kilogrammes of crystal meth and 200kg of marijuana and arrested 12 suspects in seven cases this month, it was announced on Friday (Nov 19).

Senior police and soldiers with packages of meth pills and crystal methamphetamine seized in seven cases this month, at a joint media briefing on Friday. Photo: Wassayos Ngamkham / Bangkok Post

In one case, drug suspect Jakha Jakor was shot dead in Chiang Mai on Nov 13, when 6mn speed pills were seized, along with a gun, a grenade, three mobile phones and a pickup truck, Pol Lt Gen Sarayut Sa-nguanphokhai, chief of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau, said at joint media briefing by the NSB and the army, reports the Bangkok Post.

He said Jakha was killed after police learned that a drug network led by a Muser tribesman in Tambon Ban Luang of Mae Ai District planned…

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