About 30 smugglers killed each other
before SPDC seized 830 kilograms heroin
Independent
Mon News Agency
About 30 heroin smugglers
killed each other in the Martaban Sea, southwestern
part of Burma, before the the military regime SPDC
authorities and Military Intelligence (MI) seized about 830 kilograms (1, 660
pounds) heroin from a Mon smuggler in Hnit-kayin, a
coastal village, Ye township, southern Mon State, according to the villagers.
A village leader said, “The
authorities and MI seized heroin from Mr. Nai Thin Shein, a Hnit-kayin villager
after the 30 heroin smugglers killed each other while they are exchanging
heroin with the gold bars on a ship that reached
“Because of the another side smugglers tried to kill his friends and
him, they shot each other on the ship and he survived. He drove the ship away to the
After he reached the island
he brought his heroin to his home village Hnit-kayin
about two hours drive from the island by a fishing boat according to the
leader.
“But he left all of the gold
bars and guns on the ship, took the heroin to his village. Because of the huge
amount of heroin and the news was widespread among the villagers and reached
the Burmese authorities,” the leader said.
“A week later, the
authorities came and seized the heroin, arrested him,” the villagers said.
All of gold and guns on the
ship were seized by the Burmese Army and in
According to AFP on July 17,
it was one of the biggest amounts of heroin that Burmese military government
seized in the year and wrote more than 500 kilograms heroin.
The leader told Independent
Mon News Agency that Nai Thin Shein
had smuggled drugs since many years. He also added that he believed the
government high rank authority must involve in this drug business.
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