Dungun, Malaysia: Terengganu police have busted a teenage drug trafficking syndicate responsible for distributing psychotropic pills to college students here.

Syndicate members were on their way to deliver the drugs at 2.30am Wednesday at a house in Taman Delima 1 here when cops ambushed them.

Three students, all aged 19 and one of them female, were arrested.

State police chief Senior Asst Comm 1 Datuk Ayub Yaakob said 2,396 pills and eight bottles containing narcotic substances were seized from the suspects.

"This is the biggest drug bust ever involving students in Terengganu and the trio are being probed under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drug Act 1952 which carries a mandatory death upon conviction.

"We believe that with the arrest, police have crippled a major drug trafficking syndicate involving students here," he told reporters.?

SAC Ayub said police investigated 89 cases of drug abuse among students in 2007, compared with 110 cases in 2006.