Thai airport police arrest pregnant drug runner from India

Bangkok: Thai airport police arrested a 30-year old pregnant woman who arrived on a flight from New Delhi with 50 packets of 600 grams of heroin in her stomach, news reports said Saturday.
The arrest was part of a region-wide crackdown on a Thailand-based drug smuggling ring that has resorted to using pregnant Thais as their 'mules' since they are exempted from X-ray scans at airports, said The Nation newspaper.
Two pregnant Thais were recently arrested by Indian police and 31 Thai pregnant women caught with ingested heroin have been arrested in China over the past four months, said Narcotics Control Board secretary-general Kitti Limchaikij.
26/05/07 Deutsche Presse-Agentur/Monsters and Critics.com, UK

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Categories: Foreign May 2007