Lao police, in coordination with Vietnamese border forces, have recently arrested three Lao people for trying to transport seven kilograms of heroin to Vietnam, according to local newspaper People on Monday.
The police arrested a 38-year-old man named Somvat from Laos' southern Savannakhet province on Aug. 24 when he was driving a car with the heroin towards Vietnam's central Quang Tri province. Then, they detained two of his accomplices, both from the Lao province.
The heroin is a new kind of lab-made drug in Vietnam, which is priced some 450 million Vietnamese dong (28,000 U.S. dollars) per kilogram.
Vietnam detected 4,246 drugs-related cases with the involvement of 6,281 people in the first half of this year, confiscating 93.6 kg of heroin, 28.3 kg of opium, 201.3 kg of marijuana, and 19,719 pills of lab-made narcotics.
As of late June, Vietnam had 166,291 drug addicts on record, 84. 7 percent of whom use heroin, according to the statistics from the country's Ministry of Public Security.
Source: Xinhua
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