Officials revealed that six drug traffickers were executed...

Officials revealed that six drug traffickers were executed by firing squad in Ha Tinh province, central Vietnam. Provincial chief judge Nguyen Tri Tue said they had been executed after their appeals for clemency were rejected by President Tran Duc Luong. The men were among 23 defendants convicted of trafficking more than 30kg of heroin from neighbouring Laos into Vietnam between 1997 and 1999. They had been issued death sentences in January 2001.