Dubai: Police arrested a suspected drug smuggler at Dubai Airport trying to take a huge stash of heroin out of the country. The smuggler had put the heroin into cartons, police said.

The African suspect, A.P., had arrived from an Asian country and was heading to Ghana when he was arrested anti-narcotic officers.

An officer suspected he was carrying something and asked him for his passport and ticket. The suspect denied all knowledge of the drug during the interrogation and was escorted to the General Department of Anti-Narcotics to continue the procedures.