Eyes on pregnant women
Police at Suvarnabhumi Airport yesterday arrested a pregnant woman arriving from New Delhi who had swallowed 600 grams of heroin in 50 packets.
Two other pregnant Thai members of a drug-smuggling ring had earlier been arrested by Indian police, Narcotics Control Board secretary-general Kitti Limchaikij said.The identity of the 30-year-old woman has not been revealed. Smugglers use pregnant women because they are exempted from X-ray scans. Kitti said drug-smugglers were using India as an alternative route after 31 pregnant Thai women with packets of heroin in their stomach were arrested in China over the past four months. He did not say what had happened to the women arrested by Chinese authorities. China executes drug offenders.
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