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Biggest Drug Bust By Myanmar Police

Asia's  biggest drug bust  in decades, made possible by the  Myanmar police,  seizing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of contraband including  "unprecedented"   amounts of methylfentanyl, a dangerously potent synthetic opioid. The seizures announced Monday were conducted during a three-month operation that centered around Lwe Kham village in Kutkhai Township in Myanmar's northeast Shan state. Thirty-three suspects were arrested. Jeremy Douglas, the regional coordinator for the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), said the scale of the seizure was "truly off-the-charts."