TWO Myanmar nationals were arrested Thursday night after rangers from the Army Pha Muang Task Force spotted suspicious men with rucksacks walking along the border near the Suan Lamyai border crossing in Tambon Muang Na.
The soldiers signaled the group to stop for a routine border search but the men tried to escape.
The local troops captured at least two of them.
Seized from the two smugglers were modified rucksacks containing 342,000 methamphetamine pills.
The suspects were handed over to a local police station in Chiang Dao for legal action.
The borders of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar form part of the infamous golden triangle where Asia’s billion-dollar drug trade thrives and where drug trafficking has been a problem for decades.
Security officers have been monitoring the border areas round the clock amid reports that small groups of drug dealers are trying to smuggle illicit drugs in Thailand via natural border crossings.
