'Bolivian, Thai women hired by int'l cocaine smuggling rackets'

KATHMANDU:  Preliminary investigation of Nepal Police's Narcotics Control Bureau showed two foreign women, who have been arrested on charge of cocaine smuggling to and from Kathmandu, are drug mules hired by international drug smuggling rackets.

Waranya Kaewpikul of Thailand (Passport No. AA7104116) was arrested in possession of 3.54 kg cocaine from the Tribhuvan International Airport on Tuesday night.

With a suicase concealed in false buttons, the 32-year-old Thai woman was preparing to board the 11:30 pm flight of Malaysian Air to Kuala Lumpur on her way back to Thailand when she was apprehended at the TIA yesterday evening.