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Nigerian arrested with nearly US$47,000 in heroin in Sa Kaeo
SA KAEO, Nov 1 – A Nigerian man on Monday was detained at the Thai-Cambodian border province of Sa Kaeo with 367 grammes of heroin, valued at Bt1.4 million (some $47,000), according to Pol Lt-Col Seksan Wattanapong, chief of Khlong Luek Police Station.
Nigerian national Iyiobi Ifeanyi, 38, was apprehended in Thailand's Aranyaprathet district on the Cambodian border with heroin in his stomach.
The arrest was made by police and army rangers when they saw there was no stamp on his passport to enter and found some stomach lining protector pills.
As the authorities suspected that Mr Ifeanyi might be carrying illicit drugs in his stomach, he was detained and taken to Aranyaprathet Hospital for an X-ray scanning process.
The X-ray showed over 20 packages of suspicious objects so the detainee was ordered to a toilet empty to defecate and the officers found 26 packages of heroin weighing 367 grammes overall and having as estimated street value of some $47,000.
The detained Nigerian said that he flew from Cameroon to Cambodia and then swallowed the drug packages, adding that he smuggled heroin into Thailand through the Cambodian border town of Poi Pet to deliver it to his customers in Bangkok.
Aranyaprathet district is a Thai border town where there is a crossing to Poi Pet in neighbouring Cambodia, some 290 kilometres east of Thai capital. (MCOT online news)
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