{"id":8111,"date":"2024-10-28T10:34:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T10:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=8111"},"modified":"2024-10-28T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T10:34:35","slug":"8-6-kg-of-heroin-seized-in-myanmars-sagaing-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=8111","title":{"rendered":"8.6 kg of heroin seized in Myanmar&#8217;s Sagaing region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">28 October 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YANGON, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) &#8212; Myanmar&#8217;s authorities have seized 8.6 kg of heroin in Sagaing region, the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) reported on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acting on a tip-off, anti-narcotic police intercepted a vehicle in Kale township of Sagaing region on Oct. 23 and confiscated 2 kg of heroin, the CCDAC said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further investigation led to the seizure of an additional 6.6 kg of heroin in the same township, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The confiscated drugs, with a street value of about 430 million kyats (204,957 U.S. dollars), were transported from Mandalay region to Kale township, the CCDAC said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six suspects who were involved in the case were charged under the country&#8217;s Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, and further investigation is underway, it said.<br>Ref: Xinhua<br>#heroin #mtnews #updatenews<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Photo-018542361-sskm-720x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8112\" style=\"width:838px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Photo-018542361-sskm-720x450-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Photo-018542361-sskm-720x450-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Photo-018542361-sskm-720x450-1-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Photo-018542361-sskm-720x450-1-480x300.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Photo-018542361-sskm-720x450-1-640x400.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 October 2024 YANGON, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) &#8212; Myanmar&#8217;s authorities have seized 8.6 kg of heroin in Sagaing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8113,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions\/8113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}