A VICTORIAN woman has been arrested in southern Vietnam after she collapsed with heroin in her stomach, state media reported.
Tran Thi Ngoc Dung, 35, was leaving her hotel in Ho Chi Minh City on her way to a flight home on Sunday when she fell unconscious and was rushed to hospital, Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper said.
Doctors found she had two condoms full of heroin in her stomach and one of them had burst, the paper said.
Ms Dung was still in the hospital but had been put under arrest.
It was unclear how much heroin she was carrying.
Vietnam has some of the world's harshest drug laws.
Possession of 600g or more of heroin is punishable by death.
About a dozen Vietnamese-Australians have been in court in Vietnam for heroin trafficking in recent years.
At least four have had their death sentences commuted because of lobbying by the Australian Government.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said yesterday: "The Australian Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh City is seeking to confirm media reports that the woman will be arrested on drug charges
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