YANGON: Two military officers and two other men have been arrested in Myanmar's restive Rakhine State with hundreds of thousands of meth tablets in their car, police sources said Tuesday.

Experts say growing demand for methamphetamines in neighboring Bangladesh is driving a surge in drug trafficking through the volatile border region, where the army has carried out a bloody military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.

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