Six Lao nationals are arrested for transporting 12 million methamphetamine pills (Photo: Lao Security News)Vientiane (VNA) – Police in Laos' Xayaboury province have arrested six Lao nationals in Hongsa district for involving the transportation of 12 million methamphetamine pills. The suspects initially testified that they had been paid by a Thai person to transport the methamphetamine hidden in their trucks to Vientiane. Recently, Vientiane police also discovered over 5 million amphetamine pills in an SUV that flipped in the centre of the city. Drug has become one of the social problems and a main cause of violence, crimes, and other social misbehaviors, he said. In the first half of this year, Laos cracked down 1,734 drug cases nationwide, arrested 2,635 subjects, and confiscated more than 30 million drug pills, 179.49 kg of heroin, and 125.33 kg of opium and others./.
