Guangdong police make big drug bust

The police in Guangdong province seized more than 4.1 metric tons of narcotics, mostly crystal methamphetamine, in the first three months of the year, dealing a heavy blow to drug traffickers in an area that has been a major focus of China's anti-drug campaign for decades.

Some 3,490 suspected drug dealers were detained, including residents of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, in the course of uncovering 2,790 drug-related cases in the first quarter, the Guangdong Public Security Department's head of drug enforcement, Zhai Kaixia, said on Tuesday at a news conference in Guangzhou.

Police also investigated 20,360 drug addicts during a campaign, which ran from January to March.