E-MAIL THIS LINK
To: 

Pakistani held with 98 heroin packs in stomach
[Dawn] Thai customs officials said Tuesday they had arrested a Pakistani man at Bangkok's main international airport with 98 aluminium foil packages in his stomach containing more than a kilo of heroin.

Chaudhry Ijaz Rasul, 34, was arrested as he attempted to clear customs at Suvarnabhumi Airport early Monday morning on a Thai Airways flight from Lahore in Pakistan.

'He has swallowed 98 small packages of heroin which were wrapped in aluminium foil,' a senior customs official told AFP.

The authorities forced Rasul to go to the toilet to expel the drugs, which weighed 1.3 kilograms with a street value of approximately 3.9 million baht (117,750 dollars), the official said.

'He confessed that he was asked to smuggle the drugs and that a man would come to pick them up from a hotel in Bangkok,' he added.

Rasul was charged with possession and trafficking of class A drugs, which carries a possible death sentence in Thailand.
Saw something like this every once in a while as a resident: 'packers' would swallow latex balloons filled with cocaine and come into the country, then drive up I-95. If the balloons started to leak they'd end up in an emergency room along the way, occasionally ours, with unremitting seizures followed by death. Not a happy way to go.

Posted by: Fred 2009-12-09
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=285205