PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN - Seven Malaysian drug couriers were arrested and 74 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine seized when the Bangkok-Butterworth express train was stopped and boarded by police at Prachuap Khiri Khan railway station on Wednesday night.
The suspects were all sitting in different carriages of Butterworth-bound train No.35, police said.
A search of the train uncovered many packages of crystal meth, or "ice", in five cloth bags. Each package of the drug was wrapped in gift paper. Seven Malaysian passengers, all men, were arrested
According to police they confessed to having smuggled the drugs from the North. They said they had delivered 34kg of crystal meth to a person at Nakhon Pathom railway station and 30kg to a person at Hua Hin railway station before being arrested.
The seized drugs, with a face value of about 400 million baht, were destined for customers in the South of Thailand and in Malaysia, Thai media reported.
The traffickers reportedly admitted they were being paid 2,000 ringgit (about 17,500 baht) a kilogramme for delivering of the drugs to the trafficker's agents.
They were later taken to the Office of the Narcotics Control Board in Bangkok.