Big heroin haul
NZPA-AP Hong Kong Narcotics officers have seized 300 kg of heroin near the shores of one of Hong Kong’s outlying islands, in the biggest haul in recent years. The heroin base would have a retail value of about $16.5 million if converted into heroin.
The officers believed that the drugs, contained in 12 sacks inside a fishing net, had come from the notorious “Golden Triangle” on the common borders of Thailand, Burma, and Laos. They believed the cache had been abandoned by a motor fishing junk to be retrieved later by accom-
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Press, 31 January 1984, Page 4
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