Vietnam has sentenced eight heroin traffickers to death

Vietnam has sentenced eight heroin traffickers to death, a court official said Friday, raising to more than 40 the number of drug smugglers to receive the death penalty over the past month.In the latest mass trial, the Hanoi people's court also jailed 29 others, 18 of them for life, for trafficking heroin across the country's mountainous north over two years.The report said traffickers had become more sophisticated and dangerous, with some ready to attack police with firearms and grenades.