Women arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport for smuggling heroin from India

Two Thai women were arrested Friday for allegedly smuggling in heroin bars into the kingdom from India.
Officials from the Office of the Narcotics Control Board and 191 emergency police stopped the women at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport.
The arrest followed the arrest of a Thai man and his sister on Tuesday for smuggling in heroin from India by swallowing 50 bars of the drug each. ONCB secretary-general Kitti Limchaikij said the two suspects disclosed that three Thai women would be hired to smuggle in more heroin Friday.
Kitti said officials monitored the airport and managed to arrest only two of the women but the other managed to sneak through the checking and got away.
Each of the women was found t to have swallowed 50 heroin bars each.
The two admitted that they were hired to smuggle in the drug to Bangkok and it would be later shipped to China.
25/05/07 Nation Multimedia, Thailand

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