Navy seizes 200 slabs of marijuana abandoned in Nakhon Phanom graveyard
A Royal Thai Navy patrol seized about 200 slabs of compressed marijuana worth more than five million baht from a graveyard in Nakhon Phanom after three or four smugglers fled into the jungle with a pushcart.
A Royal Thai Navy patrol seized about 200 slabs of compressed marijuana after spotting three or four smugglers with a pushcart loaded with the drug in a graveyard in Nakhon Phanom province on 25 June 2015.[1]The smugglers ran into the jungle when the navy officials approached, abandoning the marijuana.[1]
The patrol commander said the marijuana was worth more than five million baht and may have been smuggled across the Mekong River for sale in other parts of the country.[1]
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