A bid to smuggle 472.55kg of Hashish and 855 amphetamine pills (Captagon) into Saudi Arabia was foiled by the border guards in Jazan and Najran, the Arab News reports.

Spokesman Col. Saher bin Mohammed Al Harbi was quoted as saying in the report that in the past two weeks, several people were caught trying to smuggle illegal drugs into Saudi territory from Yemen.

He added that the guards arrested 10 Ethiopians, 19 Yemenis and one Saudi national. All procedures were taken in cooperation with other security agencies, the report said.

Bid to smuggle 10,000 Captagon pills foiled at Riyadh airport

Customs at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh seized 10,832 Captagon pills in separate operations.

The customs director general at the airport, Mohammed Al Aqeel, was quoted as saying that the first operation was thwarted by customs agents when carrying out the usual procedures upon receiving cargo sent by an express transport company.

After inspecting them, 2,832 Captagon pills were found hidden in a secret layer inside the wooden stand, the daily revealed.

Al-Aqeel added that in the second operation, they received wooden tables. Upon checking the items, they found a secret layer

concealing 8,009 Captagon pills.

Source: Khaleej Times