Aizawl, May 1 -- In a major drug haul, 47.5 kilograms of methamphetamine tablets worth Rs. 6.17 crore were seized during an operation in Aizawl on Tuesday, police said in a statement.

Two persons have been arrested for transporting the drug, which was believed to be smuggled from Myanmar, the statement said.

Actin on a tip off, CID (Special Branch) team of Mizoram police in Aizawl, carried out a covert operation across the stretch of a national highway between Tuirial and Zemabawk in the northeastern outskirt of Aizawl and intercepted two cars at Zemabawk area near a Presbyterian church on Wednesday, it said.

The vehicles were coming from east Mizoram's Champhai town, which shares a border with Myanmar, it said.

Upon thorough inspecti...