Drug smugglers killed in border clash

Drug smugglers killed in border clash

Four members of a drug caravan were killed and four bags containing methamphetamine seized in a gun battle with border patrol police along the Thai-Myanmar border in Chiang Mai’s Chiang Dao district on Tuesday morning.

Border patrol police at the scene of the gun battle  with a drug caravan along the Thai-Myanmar border in Chiang Mai's Chiang Dao district on Tuesday morning. (Photo by Cheewin Sattha)

A team from the 335th border patrol unit based in Chiang Dao spotted about 10 armed men carrying  bags suspected to contain illegal drugs close to the border with Myanmar near Ban Denyakhad village in tambon Muang Na in Chiang Dao district on Tuesday morning.

The patrol signaled to men to stop for a search, but instead they opened fire on the security force.

A brief gunfight followed. Afterwards the patrol found four dead men, with their weapons and four bags containing methamphetamine pills. The number of pills had yet to be counted, officials said.


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