Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/ RIYADH: Saudi authorities have detained hundreds of people and thwarted attempts to smuggle large quantities of drugs into the Kingdom this month.
Border Guards spokesman Col Misfer Al-Quraini said that land patrols in Najran, Asir, Jazan and Tabuk thwarted attempts to smuggle 29.2 tons of khat and 766 kilograms of hashish between December 3 and December 24.
Drug Smugglers
He said that of the arrested 361 alleged drug smugglers, 23 were Saudis, 261 Yemenis, 70 Ethiopians and seven Eritreans.
Al-Quraini said that initial legal procedures have been started against them and that the contraband was handed over to the competent authority.
