Police in the Arakanese town of Maungdaw say they seized nearly seven million amphetamine pills on Monday with an estimated street value of around 14 billion kyat (US$11 million).

Maungdaw district police told DVB the drugs, known regionally as ya-ba, were seized in two separate locations – a stash of over 6.2m pills found hidden among a brickworks site near the gateway to the town, and another cache with over 680,000 pills in the village of Latha.

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Local police commander Col. Nyan Win Oo said the authorities are looking for a Maungdaw resident named Nyi Chit, a prime suspect in connection with the drugs.

According to the local police’s statistics – over 8m ya-ba pills have been seized in the Arakan border town so far this year, with estimated value of more than 16bn kyat.