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Four people were arrested in connection with the bust, which
include 420 kilograms (926 lb) of crystal methamphetamine as
well as heroin at a home in Nakhon Pathom province, north of the
capital Bangkok.
"This is one of the largest drug storage facilities in the
middle of Thailand, in a community area," Justice Minister Tawee
Sodsong told reporters.
Incoming police chief Police General Torsak Sukvimol said the
overall street value of the bust was 300 million baht, adding
that the drugs were produced in a neighboring country.
Trafficking of synthetic drugs in East and Southeast Asia is
surging, the United Nations said in a report earlier this year,
with high volumes of methamphetamine still being produced from
the Golden Triangle region where the borders of Myanmar,
Thailand and Laos meet.
The region has a long history of illicit drug production and has
recently served as a massive production centre for
amphetamine-type stimulants, especially methamphetamine, used by
Asian crime syndicates with distribution networks reaching as
far as Japan and New Zealand.
($1 = 36.7900 baht)
(Reporting by Artorn Pookasook and Panu Wongcha-um and Miral
Fahmy)
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