Saudi Arabia says seizes ***** worth $267 million, arrests 6

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Saudi Arabian police have arrested six people and seized illegal ***** worth 1 billion riyals ($267 million) that were being smuggled into the country from neighbouring Bahrain, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. Spokesman Major General Mansour Turki said five Saudi citizens and one Bahraini had been detained in the operation after police uncovered 22.6 million amphetamine pills hidden inside coils of barbed wire and rolls of plastic. All narcotics and ******* are illegal in Saudi Arabia, which has a young population and applies sharia (strict Islamic law). In 2010 Saudi Arabia received around 7 tonnes of Captagon tablets, one of the most popular forms of amphetamine in the Middle East, representing around a third of total world supply, according to the United Nations ****** on ***** and Crime.

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