Chinese man caught trafficking heroin from Myanmar

A man was caught in China's southwestern province of Yunnan carrying 41.4 kilograms of heroin from Myanmar, local police said Friday.

The man, surnamed Chen, was driving a truck loaded with corn in Ruili city last Sunday afternoon, when border police stopped him and found he was hesitant when speaking.

After an inspection they found three iron boxes hidden inside the water tank, from which they seized the heroin.

Chen, who admitted his misdeeds, told police that he was asked to smuggle the heroin by a drug dealer in Myanmar. He used corn to hide the substance, attempting to carry the drug outside the province.

Investigation is going on.

Ruili is a city in the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, which is near the opium-producing Golden Triangle. Border police in the prefecture seized 1.6 tonnes of narcotics, completed 668 drug-related investigations and arrested 662 suspects in 2016. Endi