Monks at a Buddhist temple in Thailand's Phetchabun province failed a drug test and were removed from ministry.

After that, not a single monk remained in the monastery.

This is reported by the BBC.

Four monks, including the abbot, tested positive for methamphetamine.

After that, they were sent to a clinic for drug addiction rehabilitation.

The raid comes amid a national campaign to combat drug trafficking.

The monks were reportedly kicked out of the temple after police conducted urine tests on Monday that showed all four men had taken drugs.

Officials did not say what drew police attention to the temple.

"Currently, there is no clergyman in the temple, and residents of neighboring villages are worried that they cannot fulfill their religious duties," said a representative of the local authorities.

He promised to send other monks to the monastery.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Thailand is the main transit country for methamphetamine that comes from Myanmar via Laos.

Earlier it was reported that almost three thousand priests were discovered in France, who raped hundreds of thousands of children for decades.

We will remind that the SBU checked the premises of the UOC MP in Chernivtsi and found manuals from Moscow and certificates of the occupiers.

In addition, according to unconfirmed information, law enforcement officers allegedly found a young man and one of the priests in bed in one of the rooms.

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