Yangon, Mar 6 (AP) Myanmar troops confiscated grenades and other weapons from a border hide-out used by suspected drug traffickers after an earlier shootout killed 13 policemen and members of their patrol, state media reported today.
The gun battle took place February 20 near the northeastern town of Tachileik, which borders Thailand, but was only reported Saturday by Myanmar's tightly controlled media.
An anti-drug police squad was patrolling the Mekong River near Tachileik when a skirmish erupted with drug traffickers who killed eight policemen, two locally trained militia who were on the patrol and three drivers of the police motorboats, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported.
The report gave no additional details of the clash and did not mention if any alleged traffickers were killed.
Source :http://www.ptinews.com/news/550959_Eight-Myanmar-police-officials-killed-on-drug-patrol
The gun battle took place February 20 near the northeastern town of Tachileik, which borders Thailand, but was only reported Saturday by Myanmar's tightly controlled media.
An anti-drug police squad was patrolling the Mekong River near Tachileik when a skirmish erupted with drug traffickers who killed eight policemen, two locally trained militia who were on the patrol and three drivers of the police motorboats, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported.
The report gave no additional details of the clash and did not mention if any alleged traffickers were killed.
Source :http://www.ptinews.com/news/550959_Eight-Myanmar-police-officials-killed-on-drug-patrol
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