Pubdate: Tue, 11 May 2004
Source: Nation, The (Thailand)
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DRUG DEALERS SHOT DEAD IN POLICE STING

Three alleged drug traffickers were killed and more than 400,000 
methamphetamine pills seized in a police sting operation in a Chiang Mai 
border town yesterday.

Lt-Colonel Bunyasait Rodchaprom, an inspector from the Narcotics 
Suppression Division who headed the operation, said undercover police used 
Bt10 million cash to lure a gang of methamphetamine traffickers into a trap 
in Chiang Mai's Mae Tang district.

Two of the dead have been identified as Thinthai Jua, 22, and Amnuay Yang, 
22, both residents of Mae Hong Son's Pai district. Bunyasit said police set 
up a meeting with five suspects who were to deliver 440,000 methamphetamine 
pills to the front of Panglan Temple in Mae Tang at 4am yesterday. After 
the suspects delivered the drugs, police identified themselves and tried to 
arrest them. Two fled on a motorcycle, two others opened fire and the fifth 
fled in a pickup. After a 15-minute exchange of fire, the two were found 
dead. Police chased the pickup and were involved in a half-hour gunfight 
before the third suspect, Amnuay, was found dead. 
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