A haul of 495kg of compressed marijuana seized from four Lao drug couriers is displayed by police at a media briefing in Nakhon Phanom. NAKHON PHANOM-Four Lao men have been arrested and almost 500kg of compressed marijuana - worth at least 10 million baht - and a grenade were seized on the banks of the Mekong River in Ban Phaeng district late Thursday night. The suspects confessed they had been hired for 5,000 baht each by a Lao drug trafficker to deliver the marijuana from Laos to a Thai customer. Authorities said the seized marijuana had a face value of at least 10 million baht. They said drug smuggling was rampant, with more than one tonne of compressed marijuana seized in this northeastern province this month alone.

Source: Bangkok Post July 28, 2017 09:11 UTC