Vietnam
sentences two Filippino drug smugglers to death
File photo of Hanoi, Vietnam.
AFP
HANOI, August 29 - A Philippine man and
woman have been sentenced to death in Vietnam for smuggling nearly five
kilograms (11 pounds) of cocaine into the country, reports said Friday.
Emmanuel Sillo Camacho, 39, was found guilty at a trial in Hanoi
on Thursday of carrying 18 packages of cocaine -- totalling some 3.4
kilograms -- to Vietnam
from Brazil,
the Tien Phong newspaper said.
He was caught with the drugs at Hanoi's
Noi Bai airport in 2013.
Donna Buenagua Mazon, also 39, was sentenced to death by a court in southern Ho Chi Minh city
earlier this month, after being caught with 1.5 kilograms of cocaine in
December 2013.
Vietnam
maintains some of the world's toughest anti-drug laws. Anyone found guilty of
possessing more than 600 grams (20 ounces) of heroin, or more than 20 kilos
of opium, can face death.
Dozens of foreigners have been sentenced over drug offences, although it has
been decades since a foreign national was executed in the country.
AFP
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