The Macao police have apprehended two drug smuggling suspects, local media reported Tuesday.

The Macao Post quoted police sources as saying that on a tip-off, the police have busted the two traffickers, one 37-year-old Macao female citizen and one Hong Kong male resident at the same age.

The duo allegedly sold illegal drugs to clients in the northern district of the Macao Peninsula, said the newspaper report.

It added that a quantity of drugs have been seized from the female suspect's flat.

In a separate development, police cracked a major transnational "ice" production and smuggling case, arresting 12 suspects and capturing 42 kg of methamphetamine (ice) along with some other kinds of narcotics and chemicals, the Ministry of Public Security announced Tuesday.

(Xinhua News Agency June 7, 2005)