39 Chatree Srisombat, 19, (in the Runner shirt) and Noppakao Obthom, 26, (in the hooded jacket) are escorted to Wat Phraya Krai police station on Wednesday. Mr Chatree was charged with selling the fatal k-powdered milk blend and Mr Noppakao with possessing the drug. (Photo by Arnun Chonmahatrakool)
Police are at their wit s end trying to find the producers of k-powdered milk , a new drug cocktail which is believed to have killed seven people in Bangkok.
Pol Col Thongchai Buarangsri, superintendent of Wat Phraya Krai station, said on Wednesday police have not yet found any credible evidence which points to the producers.
The superintendent added the three other people who became sick after taking the drug could not be questioned yet, as they are still hooked to ventilators.
64 Sniffer dogs seek out illegal drugs on Monday in the area around Wat Phraya Krai in the capital. Arnun Chonmahatrakool
The national police chief has pledged to crack down on a new illegal drug cocktail known as k-powdered milk after six people died in Bangkok on the same day after using it.
National police chief Pol Gen Suwat Jangyodsuk said police could not yet confirm whether the substance, which looks like powdered milk, was a combination of ketamine and sleeping pills as speculated, as the results of the autopsies had not yet been released.
Some reports said it also contained methamphetamine and heroin.
20 Sirikarn Chuekhetkram, 23, at Sai Mai police station in Bangkok after her arrest and police seizure of six packets of an illegal drug cocktail known as k-powdered milk on Tuesday.(Photo supplied/Wassayos Ngamkham)
A young woman has been arrested in Bangkok’s Sai Mai area and a quantity of a new illegal drug cocktail known as k-powdered milk seized in the wake of the death of six people who used it.
Sirikarn Chuekhetkram, 23, was taken into custody in front of a house in Jitpawan community in Sai Mai area on Tuesday by police acting on a tip-off alleging she sold the drug cocktail, known as k-nom pong by Thai users because it resembles milk powder.
Drug cocktail trafficking suspects held
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10 National police chief Pol Gen Suwat Jangyodsuk (front, centre) is at Wat Phraya Krai police station in Bangkok on Tuesday to question suspected traffickers of K-powdered milk drug cocktail. (Photo supplied)
Police arrested four suspected traffickers of illicit drug cocktail known locally as K-powdered milk in Bangkok on Tuesday.
Two of the suspects were believed to be small traffickers Wirat Kaphueak, 26, of Sathon district, and Watchara Chiangchin, 22, of Thung Khru district.
The others were suspected middle-level traffickers Chatree Srisombat, 18, of Yannawa district and Nopakao Obthom, 26, of Buri Ram s Krasang district.
They were arrested in Bangkok on Tuesday after seven people reportedly died of overdosing on the drug cocktail in the capital. Six died on Sunday in an area under the jurisdiction of Wat Phraya Krai police station an