BANGKOK: Thai police found a seven-year-old boy from Myanmar crying alone at a bus stop with almost 10,000 methamphetamine pills in his backpack in western Thailand, officers said yesterday.
The child was discovered on Thursday evening in the Thong Pha Phum district of Kanchanaburi province near the border with Myanmar, local police said.
“Officers approached him and asked him questions, but he could not speak Thai,” district police chief Colonel Amnuay Pongsawat said. He said the drugs were found in about 50 plastic bags wedged into two baby powder bottles.
“It is the first time that we have seen drug trafficking gangs use a child as a courier,” Amnuay said.
He said he believed the boy had been dropped off by an uncle.
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