27 kg heroin seized in Myanmar’s central region

YANGON Myanmar authorities seized 27.35 kilograms of heroin in the central Mandalay region, according to a release from the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) on Thursday. Acting on a tipoff, the joint antinarcotic police confiscated heroin worth 1.9 billion kyats (1.4 million US dollars) from a truck in the Mogok township on Tuesday. The township police filed a case against three suspects in connection with the case, the release said. According to a latest release issued by the President’s Office, more than 1,450 drugrelated cases have been registered with some 2,220 people charged across Myanmar since the country’s Drug Activity Special Complaint Department was set up on June 26, 2018.

(Xinhua)