Vietnam and Laos police have jointly uncovered a case involving the transportation of many illegal drugs from Laos into Vietnam, arresting two Laotians and seizing 6,000 synthetic drug tablets.

>> Police bust drug ring, seizing 120,000 synthetic tablets >> Five get death for smuggling 90 kg of heroin An anti-drug police team from the northern Vietnamese province of Quang Tri and a police unit from the Laotian province of Savannakhet stopped Thursday a suspicious car with a Laotian license plate in Savannakhet’s Sepone District, near the Vietnamese border gate Lao Bao in Quang Tri, for examination. There were three Laotian men in the car, but one escaped while the joint force was checking the vehicle, in which they detected 6,000 drug synthetic tablets. The force arrested the two remaining traffickers, men aged 33 and 42, and confiscated the drugs. The joint force also seized the car, an amount of money in Lao kip and Thai baht, and some related materials. The traffickers said they had bought the drugs in Savannakhet and wanted to carry them to Quang Tri’s Huong Hoa District via the Lao Bao border gate to sell. Savannakhet police are continuing their investigation into the trafficking. Early this year, anti-drug police in the central Vietnamese province of Thanh Hoa arrested four people who illegally transported a large number of methamphetamine tablets from Laos into Vietnam. Nguyen Ngoc Hung, 44, his wife Thoan Thi Vy, 43, Le Thi At, 38, and Nguyen Huu Bang, 34, were detained on January 1 in Rung Thong Town, Dong Son District. Police confiscated about 120,000 methamphetamine tablets that the traffickers had bought in Laos.