Police seize guns and drugs in house search

Myanmar Police Force confiscated guns, bullets, grenade and stimulant tablets from a suspected drug smuggler in Kayin State in the south-east of Myanmar yesterday.

Following a tipoff, the local anti-drug squad together with eye witnesses raided the house of a suspected drug dealer in Naung Hta Lone Village, Hpa-an Township. The suspect identified as Saw Nyunt Thein, 42 years of age, attacked the police conducting an inspection in search of illicit narcotics with gun in his house and attempted to flee the scene but later he was arrested.

The police seized a carbine, a percussion-lock firearm, two bullets, a grenade and 72 stimulant pills from the suspect. Action has been taken against the suspected drug trafficker by local police.

Tun Tun Htwe (Hpa-an)

Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar