More than 20kg of hashish oil and heroin, smuggled from India, seized
The police and customs seized some 28.76kg of hashish oil and heroin, some of which were smuggled from India, over the weekend and arrested five men, two women and a minor on drugs smuggling charges
04 Oct 2016, 9:00 AM
The police and customs seized some 28.76kg of hashish oil and heroin, most of which were smuggled from India over the weekend, and arrested five men, two women and a minor on drugs smuggling charges.
Some 24.9kilos of hashish oil and 4.76kilos of heroin were found in four join operations, the police said.
On Friday, customs officers at the airport discovered 7.27kilos of hashish oil and 1.09kilos of heroin in the luggage of a 31-year-old woman who arrived from Trivandrum on a Maldivian airline flight.
After interrogating the passenger, the police later arrested a 21-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy, both of whom have criminal records.
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