Heroin condoms

BANGKOK: Thai customs officials said on Wednesday they had arrested a Pakistani man at Bangkok’s main international airport with 54 condoms in his stomach containing half a kilo of heroin. Kamran Pervaiz Butt, 24, was arrested at Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Tuesday morning on a Thai Airways flight from Islamabad, customs authorities said in a statement. X-rays showed that he had swallowed 54 condoms packed full of heroin. The total weight of the drugs was 570 grams with a street value in Thailand of approximately 1.7 million baht (50,000 dollars).