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Burmese Smuggler Caught with 15 Kg of Heroin

By On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 @ 6:51 am

An alleged drug smuggler from Burma was caught by police in China’s Yunnan Province on Sunday with a nearly 15 kg of heroin, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reports. The trafficker was supposedly nabbed in Gengma County in the city of Lincang at around 11:30 pm with 29 packages of heroin weighing a total of 14.9 kg, a spokesman with the Lincang Public Security Bureau told Xinhua. Authorities said the man was 32 years old and came from Burma.


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