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Wednesday, 07 January 2009

Aussie arrested at Vietnam airport for heroin trafficking

6/06/2008 12:00:00 PM.  | Laura Tunstall & AAP
An Australian woman has collapsed at a Vietnamese airport when bags containing heroin burst in her stomach.

35-year-old Tran Thi Ngoc Dung, of Vietnamese origin was reportedly boarding a flight to Australia on Sunday when she fell unconscious - doctors finding two condoms filled with the drug inside her.

The woman is under police guard in hospital - drug traffickers face the death sentence in Vietnam.

About a dozen Vietnamese-Australians have been brought to court in Vietnam for heroin trafficking in recent years.

At least four have had their death sentences commuted because of lobbying by the Australian government, which banned the death penalty in 1973.

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Friday, 05 September 2008

Looks like Vietnam knows how to take care of drug trafficers. Good on them. I liked the Vietnamese while I was there. Even if they were shooting at me and trying to kill me.

Posted by: Pithy Opiner, California, USA

 
 

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