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Roadblock shootout, suspect wounded, drugs seized

Police display packages containing 2 million speed pills and 400kg of crystal methamphetamine, seized after a shootout with two men in a pickup in Non Daeng district, Nakhon Ratchasima province, in the early hours of Thursday. One suspect was wounded. (Photo: Prasit Tangprasert)

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Two men were arrested, one of them wounded, and more than 2 million methamphetamine pills and about 400kg of crystal meth seized as police exchanged shots with the occupants of a pickup truck in Non Daeng district in the early hours of Thursday.

Officers from Provincial Police Region 3, backed by local police, signalled a pickup truck with two men on board to stop for a search around 1am.

In response, the passenger fired gunshots at police as the driver tried to avoid the road block. Police said they fired back…

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