BANGKOK: Police in Laos have made their third-biggest single seizure of illegal drugs after netting 33 million methamphetamine pills, a United Nations official said on Saturday.

In recent years, the reclusive communist nation has become a gateway for traffickers moving meth out of Myanmar's troubled Shan state across the Mekong River into Thailand as a way to circumvent Thai patrols.

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