Post by Soutpeel on Apr 7, 2016 8:04:55 GMT 7
Drug mule case points to Thailand serving as major transit point
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'Body packer' method likely caused smugglers' deadly overdose.
THE DISCOVERY of an Asian-looking man's body in the Klong Ong Ang waste-filter in Bangkok on Sunday likely underscores the fact that Thailand is a major transit point for drug-smuggling rings. It's also a reminder of the deadly risks of the "body packer" smuggling method.
While Thai police try to identify the man - believed to have served as a gang's drug mule - and an investigation is under way with a view to arresting the drug-ring members, the Institute of Forensic Medicine recently confirmed that he had died from ingesting 58 balls of crystal meth, or "ice", a large bag of which had burst inside him.
His death by drug overdose resulting from the body-packer method - reportedly commonly used among gangs moving illicit drugs from Afghanistan's "Golden Crescent" region around the globe - is not the first in Thailand, with several previous cases involving foreigners.
In May 2009, the body of a 45-year-old Pakistani man, Baroch Muhammad Arif-Kelci, was found with no apparent wounds.
As a urine test result was positive for drugs and the autopsy doctor found bags of drugs inside him, police suspected he had swallowed the drugs with a view to delivering them to a customer in Thailand, but the bag had burst and the drugs leaked out into his veins.
www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Drug-mule-case-points-to-Thailand-serving-as-major-30283440.html
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'Body packer' method likely caused smugglers' deadly overdose.
THE DISCOVERY of an Asian-looking man's body in the Klong Ong Ang waste-filter in Bangkok on Sunday likely underscores the fact that Thailand is a major transit point for drug-smuggling rings. It's also a reminder of the deadly risks of the "body packer" smuggling method.
While Thai police try to identify the man - believed to have served as a gang's drug mule - and an investigation is under way with a view to arresting the drug-ring members, the Institute of Forensic Medicine recently confirmed that he had died from ingesting 58 balls of crystal meth, or "ice", a large bag of which had burst inside him.
His death by drug overdose resulting from the body-packer method - reportedly commonly used among gangs moving illicit drugs from Afghanistan's "Golden Crescent" region around the globe - is not the first in Thailand, with several previous cases involving foreigners.
In May 2009, the body of a 45-year-old Pakistani man, Baroch Muhammad Arif-Kelci, was found with no apparent wounds.
As a urine test result was positive for drugs and the autopsy doctor found bags of drugs inside him, police suspected he had swallowed the drugs with a view to delivering them to a customer in Thailand, but the bag had burst and the drugs leaked out into his veins.
www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Drug-mule-case-points-to-Thailand-serving-as-major-30283440.html
