At a guesthouse in a town bordering Laos, the Quang Tri Province Border Guard of Vietnam arrested a 19-year-old girl with 15 kilograms of ketamine, which was transported from Laos to Vietnam, on Tuesday, local border guards said on Thursday.

During their urgent investigation, they also discovered an additional 40 bricks of heroin and several kilograms of 'happy water' (a slang term for a drug solution).

Colonel Le Van Phuong, commander of the provincial border guard, said on Thursday that the guard had busted a massive cross-border drug trafficking ring.

The border guard of the north-central province in May found a group of Vietnamese leading a ring to transport illegal drugs from Laos to Vietnam to sell them to northern provinces.

The guard quickly launched a probe into the ring.

The border guard on Tuesday got confidential information that a large amount of narcotics would be traded in Lao Bao Town in Huong Hoa District in the province.

Therefore, border guard officers raided a guesthouse on National Highway 9 in the town at 10:50 pm the same day, catching Nguyen Yen Nhi, a resident of Hai Duong Province, northern Vietnam, red-handed holding two bags that contained 15 kilograms of ketamine and two kilograms of happy water. 

40 bricks of heroin seized after the border guard in Quang Tri Province, north-central Vietnam detained a girl for transporting illegal drugs from Laos into Vietnam. Photo: Phuoc Trung / Tuoi Tre

The border guard officers seized an additional 40 bricks of heroin and nine more small bags of 'happy water' from her room at the lodging facility.

Nhi admitted that she was hired to transport the volume of narcotics from Laos to Vietnam.

The provincial border guard teamed up with the police in Savannakhet, Laos to arrest two more Vietnamese people for their involvement in the cross-border drug trafficking ring.

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