Over 7 kilos of raw opium seized on Mandalay-Myitkyina Up-train

Over 7 kilos of raw opium seized on Mandalay-Myitkyina

Up-train

Yangon,

17 May – A combined team comprising members of the local intelligence unit and

Myitkyina Special Anti-drug Squad, acting on information, inspected Thein Naing

in Carriage-1 of No 43 Mandalay-Myitkyina Up-train between Myothit railway

station and Hopang railway station on 21 April evening and seized 7.17 kilos of

raw opium from his handbag.

Action is being taken against Thein Naing, aged 35, son of U

San Khin of Nyaungbintha Ahle Village in Pyinmana Township under section 15/19

(A) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law by Hopang Police

Station.

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