Myanmar police make $100 mn drug haul

Myanmar authorities have seized methamphetamine tablets worth an estimated $100 million from an abandoned truck in Yangon, state media said today, as the country struggles to stem surging drug production.

Police discovered the unattended vehicle stuffed with sacks carrying an estimated 27 million tablets in the industrial suburb of Mingalardon on Sunday, according to the Myanmar-language Mirror newspaper. Myanmar sits at the heart of the infamous “Golden Triangle”, which also covers parts of Thailand and Laos, and has been a hotbed of narcotics production for decades.