Chinese police have smashed two cross-border drug trafficking gangs in the southern Guangdong Province, the local public security authority said on Thursday. Among the arrests were six Hong Kong residents and one Malaysian.

Police seized 50 kilograms of ketamine, 5 kg of heroin, 50 kg of ice and arrested nine people at an apartment in Shenzhen's Luohu District on July 19, a Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau spokesman said on Thursday.

On March 7, police seized 10 kg of ice, 2.2 kg of ecstasy and apprehended three Hong Kong residents and a Malaysian man at 9 a.m. in the city's Futian District when they were making a trade. The four were alleged to be buying drugs from the Chinese mainland to sell in Malaysia.

Four million yuan (571,428 U.S. dollars) held in a Hong Kong account of the Malaysian man named Chen Lin-chong was later frozen by police.

On Thursday, the bureau destroyed 1,329 kg of drugs worth 400 million yuan at the Nanshan Waste Incineration Power Plant.

(Xinhua News Agency, March 28, 2008)