BUNG KAN: More than 5.5 million methamphetamine pills were seized late on Sunday night in Bung Khong Long district by soldiers of the Nakhon Phanom-based Mekong Riverine Unit.
Capt Surasak Suwankesa, commander of the Nakhon Phanom MRU, said that, acting on a tip-off, a patrol intercepted a covered Toyota Vigo pickup at Tha Dok Kham, a village near the boundary with Ban Phaeng district of Nakhon Phanom.
The driver of the pickup fled.
The truck's cargo was 14 fertiliser sacks containing a total of 5,580,000 meth pills, street value about 500 million baht.