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Pakistani security team seizes 15 kg heroine in Karachi airport

Xinhua, December 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

The security and vigilance team of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Wednesday foiled an attempt to smuggle 15 kg heroine from the country's southern port city of Karachi to Saudi Arabian, officials said.

The PIA spokesperson Danyal Gilani said that the airline's team recovered the heroine at Jinnah International Airport Karachi during the routine pre-departure search of the plane.

He said that the flight, PK-7121, was scheduled to travel from Karachi to Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah.

The heroine was hidden in a secret compartment of the plane and investigations are being carried out to arrest the culprit.

Officials from Airport Security Force, Anti-Narcotics Force and Pakistan Customs at the airport were also called in to investigate the heroine and the plane.

The custom officials arrested three PIA workers and sent them to some unknown place for investigations, local Urdu TV channel Dunya said.

The flight was delayed for 10 hours due to the incident and the spokesperson said that all passengers were accommodated in a hotel and later sent to Jeddah after the aircraft was cleared by the relevant agencies. Endit