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Over 300kg of drugs seized in southern sea raid
Police state the quantity of narcotics seized from the vessel intercepted in the Southern Sea totalled 376 kilograms.The haul contained
Summary
Police state the quantity of narcotics seized from the vessel intercepted in the Southern Sea totalled 376 kilograms. The haul contained 115 kilograms of heroin (5 sacks, 100 packets) and 261 kilograms of 'ICE' (13 sacks, 200 packets). In addition, the Police report the seizure of one pistol, two magazines, one revolver, and one Iridium satellite phone.
What this story is about
People
- Buddhika Sampath2
- Unakuruwe Shantha
- Unakuruwe Shanta
Organisations
- Police Narcotics Bureau3
- Samagi Jana Balawegaya2
- Sri Lanka Navy2
- Sri2
- Navy and Police Narcotics Bureau
- Navy.Reports
- Navy
Places
- Sri Lanka7
- Tangalle Fisheries Harbour6
- Southern sea2
- Tangalle Harbour
- South Sri Lanka
- Pannala
Keywords
- vessel4
- heroin3
- seized3
- intercepted2
- firearms2
- fishing2
- seas2
- transporting
- contained
- fishermen
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Over 375kg of heroin, Ice and 2 firearms seized from fishing vessel intercepted off southern coastAda Derana
Six fishermen arrested for suspected narcotics transportNewsWire English