BANGKOK: Thai authorities on Sunday seized some 980,000 illegal methamphetamine pills worth almost $6 million stashed in a truck thought to be heading to the capital Bangkok from northern Thailand, police said.

Acting on a tipoff, narcotics police and local military officials set up roadblocks in Chiang Rai province in the Golden Triangle region of northern Thailand. They found packs of the drug, known as yaba, hidden in the roof of a pick-up truck.

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