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Malay Mail
01-06-2025
- General
- Malay Mail
Two men killed in separate heavy machinery accidents in Kuala Krai
KUALA KRAI, June 1 — Two men were killed in separate accidents involving heavy machinery here yesterday evening, said Kuala Krai district police chief Supt Mazlan Mamat. Mazlan said in the first incident at about 2.50 pm, a Thai national, aged 49, was killed after the backhoe he was driving fell off a cliff in the Ladang Dabong area, near Kilometre 27 of Jalan Sungai Sam-Dabong. 'At the time of the accident, the victim was driving the backhoe to take a break and was passing through a hilly area. 'The backhoe skidded and fell off the cliff, causing the victim to be thrown out and subsequently crushed by the vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene,' Mazlin said in a statement yesterday. He said the accident is believed to have been caused by the driver's negligence, having failed to control the vehicle being driven, causing it to fall off the cliff. Meanwhile, in another accident at about 3.30 pm, a 59-year-old man was killed in Ladang Bonanza, Laloh after a bulldozer he was driving fell down a ravine. 'Initial investigations found that the victim was working in the plantation and operating the bulldozer to make terraces. 'While doing terrace work, the bulldozer slipped off its path and fell into a ravine about 100 metres deep,' he said. He also said the victim who was trapped in the machine was pronounced dead at the scene, and the accident is believed to have been caused after the victim lost control of the bulldozer. 'The bodies of both victims were sent to the Sultan Ismail Petra Hospital's forensics unit for post-mortems, and the cases are being investigated under Section 41(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987,' he added. The police are urging anyone with information regarding the accidents to come forward and provide information to the Traffic Police Station at the Kuala Krai district police headquarters (IPD) or contact the Investigating Officer, Insp Mohamad Amirul Izham Azlan at 09-9666222. — Bernama
The Herald
16-05-2025
- The Herald
Indonesia seizes ship carrying methamphetamine, cocaine worth $426m
Indonesia's navy seized a ship carrying nearly two tonnes of methamphetamine and cocaine worth almost $426m (R7.69bn) off Sumatra this week and arrested a Thai national and four Myanmar nationals aboard the vessel, the navy said on Friday. Officers apprehended the ship after it turned off its lights and increased its speed to try to flee Indonesian waters in the Tanjung Balai Karimun region of Riau Islands province, the navy said. Officers seized nearly 100 yellow and white sacks holding about 1.2 tonnes of cocaine and 705kg of methamphetamine worth$425.92m, a navy spokesperson said. Indonesia has among the world's strictest anti-narcotics laws and drug trafficking is punishable by death. The navy said the ship, bearing a Thai flag, was taken to a navy base in Tanjung Balai Karimun. It did not give details of the crew members' origins apart from their nationalities. Officials are still investigating where the drugs came from and where the ship was headed, navy official Fauzi, who goes by one name, said in a press conference. The seizure is among the largest busts in the country. A record 190 tonnes of methamphetamine were seized in East and Southeast Asia in 2023 as organised crime groups exploited weak law enforcement to traffic the drugs, mainly via the Gulf of Thailand, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said in a 2024 report. The Golden Triangle — an area of northeast Myanmar that meets parts of Thailand and Laos — has a long history of producing drugs, mainly used by Asian crime syndicates which distribute the narcotics as far as Japan and New Zealand. In 2022, 179kg of cocaine were found in waters near the port of Merak on Java island, at the time the largest cocaine seizure in the country, the UN drug agency said in a 2023 global report on cocaine. Reuters
The Independent
16-05-2025
- The Independent
Ship carrying cocaine and MDMA worth £320m seized by Indonesia
The Indonesian Navy has seized a ship carrying methamphetamine and cocaine worth $425m (£320m) off Sumatra this week, officials said. One Thai national and four Myanmar nationals found abroad the Thai-flagged vessel were arrested, the authorities said on Friday. Officers apprehended the ship after it turned off its lights and increased its speed to try to flee Indonesian waters in the Tanjung Balai Karimun region of Riau Islands province. The vessel was taken to a navy base in Tanjung Balai Karimun, the navy said, without sharing further details about the crew members. Officers seized nearly 100 yellow and white sacks holding about 1.2 tonnes of cocaine and 705kg of methamphetamine or MDMA worth 7trillion rupiah ($320m) in one of the largest drug busts in the country, navy spokesperson, I Made Wira Hady Arsanta Wardhana, said in a statement. Officials are still investigating where the drugs came from and where the ship was headed, navy official Fauzi, who goes by one name, told reporters. A record 190 tonnes of methamphetamine were seized in East and Southeast Asia in 2023 as organised crime groups exploited weak law enforcement to traffic the drugs, mainly via the Gulf of Thailand, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said in a 2024 report. The Golden Triangle – an area of northeast Myanmar that meets parts of Thailand and Laos – has a long history of producing drugs, mainly used by Asian crime syndicates which distribute the narcotics as far as Japan and New Zealand. In 2022, 179kg of cocaine were found in waters near the port of Merak on Java island, at the time the largest cocaine seizure in the country, the United Nations drug agency said in a 2023 global report on cocaine. Last year, Indonesian authorities said at least four people were facing the death penalty for allegedly trafficking drugs into the resort island of Bali, defying the Indonesia 's notoriously strict anti-narcotic laws. Indonesia has some of the world's toughest drug laws, and has more than 150 people on death row, mostly for drug trafficking offences. About a third of them are foreigners. Earlier in November 2019, a court in Bali sentenced two Thai nationals to 16-year prison terms for smuggling 1kg of methamphetamine into the country. The same year, a French citizen was sentenced to death on Lombok, an island next to Bali, for smuggling 3kg of MDMA before a higher court commuted his sentence to 19 years in prison.
Malay Mail
16-05-2025
- Malay Mail
Indonesian navy seizes RM1.8b in cocaine and meth on Thai-flagged ship
JAKARTA, May 16 — Indonesia's navy seized a ship carrying nearly two tons of methamphetamine and cocaine worth US$425 million (RM1.8 billion) off Sumatra this week, and arrested a Thai national and four Myanmar nationals found aboard the vessel, the navy said today. Officers apprehended the ship after it turned off its lights and increased its speed to try to flee Indonesian waters in the Tanjung Balai Karimun region of Riau Islands province, the navy said. Officers seized nearly 100 yellow and white sacks holding about 1.2 tonnes of cocaine and 705 kilogrammes of methamphetamine worth 7 trillion rupiah (RM1.8 billion), navy spokesperson, I Made Wira Hady Arsanta Wardhana, said in a statement. Indonesia has among the world's strictest anti-narcotics laws and drug trafficking is punishable by death. The navy said the ship, bearing a Thai flag, was taken to a navy base in Tanjung Balai Karimun. It did not give details of the crew members' origins apart from their nationalities. Officials are still investigating where the drugs came from and where the ship was headed, navy official Fauzi, who goes by one name, said in a press conference. The seizure is among the largest busts in the country. A record 190 tons of methamphetamine were seized in East and Southeast Asia in 2023 as organised crime groups exploited weak law enforcement to traffic the drugs, mainly via the Gulf of Thailand, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said in a 2024 report. The Golden Triangle — an area of northeast Myanmar that meets parts of Thailand and Laos — has a long history of producing drugs, mainly used by Asian crime syndicates which distribute the narcotics as far as Japan and New Zealand. In 2022, 179 kg of cocaine were found in waters near the port of Merak on Java island, at the time the largest cocaine seizure in the country, the United Nations drug agency said in a 2023 global report on cocaine. — Reuters
