The Myanmar Border police seized 570,000 Yaba methamphetamine tablets at Maungdaw Township in western Burma on 5 May 2015, said a police source.
The source also claimed that it was the first big seizure of Yaba tablets on the western Burma border this year.
A squad of police on duty succeeded in seizing the banned tablets while it was patrolling the Myanmar- Bangladesh border area.
The police team intercepted a car near to Shwe Zar Post primary school and found 570,000 Yaba tablets in two bags.
Both the bags were under the driver's seat. Saw Shwe Tun alias Myo Wai Tun, who was driving the vehicle with his assistant Micle alias Micle Tun were detained
Last month border police seized around 250,000 Yaba tablets from a motor boat moored offshore of the Naff river near to Alay Than Kyaw Village.
Edited for BNI by Mark Inkey
