Drugs Seizures

5 kilos opium
seized in Kutkai

Daw Mar Rwe and Daw Kyon Nyee
nabbed with 5.797 kilos of opium in Kutkai.

YANGON,
13 Dec – A combined group comprising members of local intelligence unit and
Myanmar Police Force searched a van with number plates 1Ka/6834, leaving from
Tarmonye to Kutkai, near the bridge of Naungcho Village, Mawhan Village-tract,
Kutkai Township, on 5 December.

The group seized seven packets
of opium weighing 5.797 kilos from passengers Daw Mar Rwe, 40, daughter of U
Khun Nyee, 38, daughter of U Khong Gyon of Lwetauksusee Village, Kutkai.

Action is taken against them
under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law.