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Heroin Confiscated, Six Arrested In Burma

Compiled From Wire Services

Burmese troops searching for drug refineries confiscated 314 pounds of heroin in the country’s biggest seizure of the drug, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The heroin was found when an army patrol stopped two Chinese-made jeeps near Theinni, 37 miles from the border with China, according to the state-owned New Light of Myanmar.

The heroin was found Thursday in four steel boxes and six plastic sacks. Six people were arrested but two escaped, the newspaper said.

U.S. officials say Burma is the world’s biggest heroin producer. Up to 70 percent of the heroin in the United States originates in the Golden Triangle where Burma, Thailand and Laos meet.

China is one of the routes by which heroin is smuggled out of Burma.