Suspected heroin found washing ashore

Police in some central provinces have found dozens of plastic bags containing a substance suspected to be heroin at local coast.

Police in some central provinces have found dozens of plastic bags containing a substance suspected to be heroin at local coast.

  

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Colonel Hoang Van Man, commissar of Quang Nam Province Border Guards confirmed that they had found large amounts of heroin. The local authorities have launched an investigation to find the origin of the heroin and they are calling for the locals to bring the heroin to the police.

At 4 pm on November 30, a local in Tam Thanh Commune was walking along the beach when he found a plastic can which contained many white packages. Thinking that the packages might be heroin, he quickly reported the incident to the Tam Thanh Border Station.

It was later confirmed to be heroin. Other locals continued bringing the packages to the police after finding them on the beach. The border guards then called for the locals to bring the heroin to the authorities if they found any. They also checked the beach and found two more packages. The border guards successfully collected 25 packages.

On December 3, the border guards in Thua Thien-Hue Province confirmed that they had received a plastic can that contained 21 packages that might be heroin. The can was found on a beach by a local man. The packages contain Chinese and English characters which look similar to the packages found in Quang Nam Province.

Phong Hai Border Station reported on December 1 that they also received eight packages, weigh 7.8kg, which were suspected to be methamphetamine. It was found by a local who was collecting scrap on a beach.