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Further details emerge on latest fishing trawler drug bust
Further details have emerged regarding the fishing trawler seized with narcotics during a Sri Lanka Navy surveillance operation in deep
Summary
Preliminary investigations have revealed that the consignment of drugs had been transferred to the vessel from an Iranian ship. Investigations have also uncovered that traffickers had promised Rs. Security forces suspect that the owner of the trawler was aware of the operation and is currently on the run.
What this story is about
People
- Buddhika Sampath2
- Kanchana Banagoda
- Heroin Worth Rs
Organisations
- Sri Lanka Navy5
- Navy5
- Dikowita Fisheries Harbour2
- Police Narcotics Bureau2
- Wellemanakanda Fisheries Harbour
- Dikkowita Fisheries Harbour
- Department of Information
- Police Narcotic Bureau
Places
- Sri Lankan
- Sri Lanka
- BERUWALA
Keywords
- trawler5
- fishing4
- intercepted2
- southwest2
- suspected2
- billion2
- seizes2
- off2
- spokesperson
- surveillance
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300kg of heroin worth over Rs. 6 billion found on seized fishing trawler off BeruwalaAda Derana
Navy intercepts trawler suspected of narcotics smuggling off southwest coastNewsWire English