The police of Kaifeng City, central China's Henan Province, have, after two months of investigations, cracked down upon a big clan-type drug trafficking network and seized 3,400 grams of narcotics.

Police officers said that by Friday, a group of 27 drug traffickers had been captured, and a bundle of trafficking tools and illicit money and goods had been confiscated.

In early March, the local police detected a couple named Bai Yanjun and Wang Huijun had narcotics trafficking activities and by following the traces, have since uncovered the upstream traffickers, including a husband and wife and their two sons as well as Wang Huijun's sister and brother-in-law, and thus cracked down on the whole trafficking web.

In a separate development, the police of southwestern China's Guizhou Province cracked two narcotics trafficking cases, capturing three suspects and confiscating 13,000 tablets of "ice", or methamphetamine hydrochloride.

According to the provincial public security bureau, on June 8 the anti-drug police officers in Liupanshui City of Guizhou uncovered over 9,000 tablets of "ice", with a combined weight of 900-odd grams, in a car, and captured two suspects at the scene. The suspects confessed that the narcotics were bought from Yunnan Province and would be trafficked to Guangzhou, capital city of south China's Guangdong Province, to trade out.

On June 16, the local police intercepted a coach at Pu'an County of Guizhou and detected a suspect with a bunch of 4,499 tablets of "ice" bound on his belly with a tape.

The two cases are under further investigation.

(Xinhua News Agency June 19, 2004)