DRUGS
Post Reporters
Rangers clashed with a drug caravan near the Burmese border in Chiang Rai's Mae Chan district yesterday, killing two traffickers and arresting one suspect.
The rangers from the Pha Muang task force also seized a backpack stuffed with 34,000 methamphetamine pills from the body of one of the dead.
The force acted on intelligence reports that the Red Wa guerrillas in Burma had transported 300kg of heroin and 32 million speed pills to the border area ready for delivery to customers in Thailand.
The rangers were patrolling a thickly forested area when they spotted a group of 7-8 men yesterday. They ignored the rangers' demand for them to surrender and a fierce gunfight followed.
After the clash, two dead men were found at the scene, one with an assault rifle and the other with a backpack.
Another suspect, identified only as Asam, was found hiding nearby.
The task force said the men were Red Wa fighters guarding a shipment of drugs from a production base on Doi Sam Sao in Burma.
In Bangkok, two Indian men were arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport on Tuesday after customs officers found five million baht worth of ketamine hidden in their luggage.
Sivaraj Vellaikkannu, 33, and Lakshmanan Mathu, 28, arrived from Sri Lanka. They were walking through a nothing-to-declare exit when customs officers stopped them for a random search.
The officers found one of the Indians' luggage was unusually heavy. The bag was X-rayed and emptied of its contents before the officers decided to cut it open and found ketamine hidden inside.
Police also arrested a woman who showed up at a market in Chumphon's Tha Sae district to deliver speed pills to police posing as buyers.
Thanyarat Thirasiriwat, 44, was nabbed while in possession of 394 speed pills valued at 38,000 baht.
Police said she belonged to a gang specialising in using inter-provincial buses to transport drugs to customers throughout the country. Her husband is a bus driver.
In Bangkok, undercover police nabbed a former actor and his friend on Tuesday for allegedly possessing 260 grammes of crystal methamphetamine, or ice.
Police said Bansu Mueanchart, 36, was a supplier of ice to teenagers, actors and party-goers. His friend, Sandon Chantra, 37, helped with drug trafficking from the Cambodian border, they said. The two denied all charges.
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