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Two drug mules die in border shootout

AK-47 assault rifles and speed pills found near bodies after clash in Chiang Rai

Officers inspect the scene of the clash and find the bodies of two drug smugglers who were killed in a clash with soldiers along the Thai-Myanmar border in Chiang Rai on Thursday. (Photo: Pha Muang Task Force)

Two armed drug smugglers were killed in a clash with a patrol of rangers in Chiang Rai along the Thai-Myanmar border on Thursday.

The army’s Pha Muang Force reportedly spotted between five and seven armed men with backpacks walking through a forest near Ban Huai Kra in Mae Fa Luang district at 7.15pm.

The officers told the men to stop for a search, but the latter refused and started shooting, which prompted the…

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