Four persons face death for trafficking heroin in Vietnam
Police of northern Vietnam’s Dien Bien province on Monday arrested four local men for trafficking 115 cakes of heroin from Laos.
The Vietnam News Agency reported that the four people, aged from 20 to 26, are all from Dien Bien province.
Local police started the investigation in mid-April and the heroin seized in the province’s Tuan Giao district weighs 40.2 kg, the news agency reported.
The traffickers admitted that the drug had been bought in Laos and was being transported to northern Vietnam’s Lao Cai province for sale.
Vietnamese law stipulates the death penalty for people convicted of smuggling over 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kg of methamphetamine.
(Xinhua/NAN)
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