A Vietnamese court Thursday gave death sentences to six Vietnamese people, and life sentences on two women for heroin trafficking, Vietnam News Agency reported.
The People's Court of northern Thanh Hoa province also handed down jail terms of 16-20 years on four local people in the drug trafficking ring, which trafficked 14 cakes of heroin (4.9 kg of heroin) from northern Son La province to Thanh Hoa between December 2005 and March 2006.
The death sentence receivers include Giang A Pao, 26, and his father-in-law Song A Vang, 41, from Son La; and Nguyen Kim Tuan, 38, Nguyen Kim Hai, 33, Tran Dang Hinh, 35, and Tran Dang Binh, 43, from Thanh Hoa.
Tuan's younger sister named Nguyen Thi Chinh, 28, and Binh's wife named Doan Thi Thanh Huong, 41, got life imprisonment sentences.
In Vietnam, possessing, trading or trafficking 600 grams of heroin or 20 kg of opium is punishable by death or life in prison.
Vietnam, as of late 2006, had a total of 160,226 drug addicts, over 70 percent of whom are in the age bracket of 18-35, according to statistics from the country's Ministry of Public Security.
Source: Xinhua
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