Two Pakistani men have been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle in a kilogram of heroin contained in plastic bags inside their stomachs.
Acting on a tip-off, immigration police at Suvarnabhumi Airport arrested Ahmed Saiid Azahk and Iqbal Muhammad Abihd - who were acting suspiciously - on Sunday morning.
After an X-ray revealed that the men had a large number of plastic bags in their stomach, police gave both suspects laxatives and extracted 61 bags of heroin weighing 760 grams from Azahk and 59 bags weighing 700g from Abihd. About to take a connecting flight to Phuket, the suspects claimed this was the first time and that they had been paid Bt30,000 each for running the drugs. However, further investigations showed that the suspects had flown to Thailand 10 times before under similar conditions.