About 5.1 tons of counterfeit medicines were burned down on Friday at a dumpsite on the outskirts of capital Phnom Penh by Cambodian economic police.

The drugs with foreign language labels had been seized at border checkpoints, pharmacies and drug stores since 2012 by joint operations of economic police and health officials, said Brigadier General Long Sreng, deputy chief of the anti-economic crimes department of the interior ministry.

"Some 62 types of fake medicines were burned down," he told reporters. "Those medicines had been imported from Vietnam and packed in Cambodia."

He said the destruction of the medicines aimed to prevent the trafficking of fake medicines and to improve the well-being of the Cambodian people. Endi

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