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Faisalabad airport authorities foil bid to smuggle heroin worth millions of rupees

Heroin worth millions of rupees recovered from Dubai-bound man in Faisalabad

By Geo News
February 21, 2020
The News/Files

FAISALABAD: Airport authorities said Friday they had foiled a bid to smuggle contraband to the United Arab Emirates via a private airline and arrested a suspect before he could board the aeroplane.

The authorities said they had also recovered millions of rupees worth of contraband from the Dubai-bound passenger here at Faisalabad International Airport. The man had hidden his one-kilo heroin stash in a secret compartment of the bag.

The arrested suspect, along with the recovered drugs, was handed over to the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF).