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Watch: Saudi Arabia busts 7.4 million amphetamine drug tablets

Haul was stashed away into consignment of concrete blocks

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Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent
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The kingdom’s General Directorate of Narcotics Control reported that a Yemeni resident and a displaced expatriate were apprehended after the seizure in Riyadh.

Courtesy: General Directorate of Narcotics Control

Cairo: Saudi anti-drug police have seized 4.7 million tablets of amphetamine hidden in a consignment of concrete blocks and arrested two foreigners in connection with the haul, authorities have announced.

Earlier this month, Saudi customs authorities said they had thwarted an attempt to smuggle cocaine into the kingdom in a potato shipment arriving at the Red Sea port of Jeddah.

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Last month, Zatca announced thwarting an attempt to smuggle over 1 million Captagon pills hidden in a cargo of peppers and guavas transported to the kingdom aboard a truck through the Red Sea Duba port in northwestern Saudi Arabia.

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