Three policemen killed, one injured in clash with Laotian drug gang

NONG KHAI: -- Three policemen were killed and another severely injured when they tried arrest two Laotian drug dealers in a village of Nong Khai's Buengkarn district late Monday night.

Undercover police contacted to buy crystallised amphetamine from the Laotian drug dealers in Tambon Horkham and when the two dealers came to deliver the drug 13 Thai police officers showed up to arrest them.

However, the two Laotians and another gangster, who was hiding, opened fire at the police officers, killing one of them at the scene. Two more officers died at the hospital.

Nong Khai Police chief Pol Maj Gen Pramote Iamthat said an allege drug dealer was killed.

-- The Nation 2006-10-31