BUKIT KAYU HITAM: Three Filipinas, believed to be members of an international drug ring, were arrested for attempting to smuggle 27.9kg of ganja into the country at the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine complex here.

General Operations Force personnel apprehended the three women aged 30, 39 and 42 and a 34-year-old Thai man who transported the three women using a pickup truck.

GOF's Battalion 18 commanding officer Supt Ahmad Razil Yaacob said GOF personnel stopped the vehicle at about 11.10am for a routine inspection and found the drug in the women's bags.

He told reporters here Tuesday that police believed the three women were drug mules based on the stamps on their passports which showed that they had visited many countries, among them Laos, Vietnam, China and India.

The three women flew into Bangkok Monday and travelled by land to Danok Town, near here. They entered Malaysia Tuesday morning.