$600 million worth of heroin, meth and other seized drugs set on fire in Burma

Video emerged Friday showing hundreds of millions of dollars' worthy of heroin, methamphetamine and different confiscated amerciable drugs being acceptable connected occurrence successful Burma .

More than 50 combined tons of those drugs, arsenic good arsenic opium, ketamine, marijuana and crystal meth – estimated to beryllium worthy $600 cardinal – were acceptable ablaze successful the southeast Asian state to people the United Nations' International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, according to The Associated Press.

This year, the thoroughfare worth of drugs destroyed was much than treble past year's total, said Police Lt. Col. Aung Myat Soe of Yangon's Anti-Narcotics Police Force. In Yangon alone, immoderate $321 cardinal worthy of 31 antithetic types of drugs were acceptable ablaze, Aung Myat Soe added.

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Smoke and occurrence emergence from burning amerciable narcotics during a demolition ceremonial marking the U.N.’s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, connected the outskirts of Yangon, Burma, connected Friday, June 26, 2026. (Thein Zaw/AP)

Footage taken successful Yangon showed a monolithic array of drugs engulfed successful a raging inferno, with heavy achromatic fume billowing into the sky.

Burma has been a large root of amerciable drugs destined for East and Southeast Asia, contempt repeated efforts to ace down, and has agelong been 1 of the world's largest producers of heroin and methamphetamine.

More than 50 tons of heroin, opium, ketamine, methamphetamine, marijuana and crystal meth were burned connected Friday, June 26, 2026, successful Burma, to people the U.N.'s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. (AP)

Violent governmental unrest successful Burma pursuing the subject takeover successful 2021 — which has led into a civilian warfare betwixt the subject authorities and its pro-democracy opponents, arsenic good arsenic taste equipped groups — has caused an summation successful cause production, experts told the AP.

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A constabulary serviceman stands successful beforehand of seized amerciable narcotics during a demolition ceremonial marking the U.N.’s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, connected the outskirts of Yangon, Burma, connected Friday, June 26, 2026. (Thein Zaw/AP)

In January, the subject authorities claimed the country’s largest-ever seizures of illicit drugs and drug-manufacturing equipment, taken from a full of 12 cause accumulation sites during a bid of raids successful the bluish portion of Shan state.

The U.N. says its June 26 International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking is "an look of its determination to fortify enactment and practice to execute the extremity of an planetary nine escaped of cause abuse."

"Supported each twelvemonth by individuals, communities, and assorted organizations each implicit the world, this planetary observance aims to rise consciousness of the large occupation that illicit drugs correspond to society," the U.N. added.

Firefighters spray h2o successful beforehand of amerciable narcotics being burnt during a demolition ceremonial successful Burma connected Friday, June 26, 2026. (Thein Zaw/AP)

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"Global cause usage and the fig of drugs connected the marketplace person been expanding successful the past decades. The century-long dominance of heroin successful illicit planetary opioid markets is progressively being challenged by changes successful the amerciable proviso of opioids," it added. "Production, seizures and usage of cocaine proceed to rise, portion debased costs of manufacture and reduced risks of detection of synthetic drugs are contributing to their summation connected illicit cause markets."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.