HANOI, May 15: Vietnamese officials have seized marijuana worth $90 million in the country’s biggest drugs haul, police said on Thursday.

The eight tons of marijuana was believed to be in transit to Canada via China, said Col Nguyen Anh Tuan, director of the anti-drug department. He said the marijuana was seized earlier this week on two trucks heading for the border with China. It had arrived in the port of Hai Phong late April on a ship from Pakistan.

The drugs had been mixed in with a shipment of blue jeans. Four Chinese and an Indonesian have been arrested in connection with the smuggling and others were being sought, Tuan said.—AP

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