Soldiers seize drugs after border clash with smugglers

January 2, 2024

PUBLISHED : 2 Jan 2024 at 11:58

Soldiers with packages of meth pills found in an abandoned rucksack after they clashed with smugglers in Mae Ai district of Chiang Mai in the early hours of Tuesday. (Photo supplied/Panumet Tanraksa)

CHIANG MAI: Soldiers clashed with smugglers and later seized 200,000 abandoned methamphetamine pills, in Mae Ai district in the small hours of Tuesday.

A patrol from the Pha Muang task force came upon armed men near a natural border crossing from Myanmar in Kaeng Tum…