BANGKOK – Thai police said on March 10 they had arrested a Myanmar national accused of trying to smuggle 120 litres of diesel out of Thailand, days after the country banned fuel exports due to the Middle East war.

Police in Kanchanaburi province stopped the 25-year-old man late on March 9, about 30m from the border with Myanmar, while he was hauling four 30-litre containers filled with diesel in the sidecar of a motorbike, a police statement said.