According to the police, Trang Bich Phuong and her two accomplices were arrested in Ho Chi Minh City with dozens of condoms packed with tiny nylon bags of white powder, which are suspected to be heroin. Authorities are waiting for final test results from the investigation agency.

Ten days prior, municipal police seized Vietnamese-Australian woman Tran Thi Ngoc Dung, 35, when a condom packed with drugs burst inside her body and she was hospitalized at the Saigon General Hospital.

At present, the department is expanding its investigation into a large drug trafficking ring into Australia which uses HCM City as a major transit point.