RIYADH: Various attempts to smuggle drugs in the regions of Jazan, Najran, Asir, and Tabuk have been thwarted, the official spokesman of the General Directorate of Border Guard Colonel Misfer bin Ghannam Al-Quraini said.
Attempts to smuggle 296 kilograms of the narcotic khat, 230 kilograms of hashish, 334,000 amphetamine tablets, 278 grams of opium and 1.8 grams of cocaine were foiled, Saudi Press Agency reported.
30 smugglers have been apprehended, including 16 Saudi nationals and 14 foreigners of Ethiopian, Somali, Eritrean, and Egyptian nationality.
After the initial legal procedures against them were completed, the smugglers were handed over to the authorities.
