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Qatar seizes 7 kg narcotics at Hamad Int'l Airport

Xinhua,April 22, 2018 Adjust font size:

DOHA, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Qatari customs officers have seized 7 kg of hashish on Sunday at the Hamad International Airport, preventing drug entrance to Qatar, according to a report by local media.

The illicit drugs were found inside secret pockets of a bag that belongs to one Asian passenger, Qatar-based English newspaper "the peninsula" said.

According to the country's customs officers, the bag was designed to hide the drugs in a form that they looked like a part of the bag design. Enditem