DUBAI: Malaysian authorities foiled an attempt to smuggle 3.9 million amphetamine pills after receiving a tip from Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of Narcotics Control, police have reported.
Local media reports said this was the second one drug bust involving captagon pills in Malaysia that was averted with the cooperation and intelligence shared by Saudi Arabia.
A container ship that came in to dock on Sunday at Malaysia’s West Port with one of the containers, which was declared as containing aluminium floor springs, and was meant to be transferred to another ship heading to another country.
No arrests were made, according to the Malaysian police, who lauded Saudi Arabia’s anti-narcotics body which helped identify the ship and the container when it arrived on Sunday.
Malaysia, Saudi Arabia bust drug smuggling attempt
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Malaysia, Saudi Arabia bust drug smuggling attempt
- Local media reports said this was the second one drug bust involving captagon pills in Malaysia
- No arrests were made
Saudi Arabia condemns blast that hit mosque in Alawite area of Syria’s Homs
- Homs’s press office said an explosive device had detonated inside the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib mosque and that security forces had cordoned off the area
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia condemned an explosion at a mosque of the Alawite minority sect in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday that killed eight people.
The city’s press office said an explosive device had detonated inside the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib mosque and that security forces had cordoned off the area.
Syrian news agency SANA cited health ministry official Najib Al-Naasan as saying 18 others were wounded and that the figures were not final, indicating they could rise.
Extremist Syrian group Saraya Ansar Al-Sunnah said on its Telegram channels that it carried out the attack. The group previously claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Damascus church in June that killed 20 people.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said: “The Kingdom affirms its categorical rejection of terrorism, extremism, targeting of mosques and places of worship, and terrorizing innocent people. It expresses its solidarity with Syria in this great tragedy, and its support for the Syrian government’s efforts to establish security and stability.”
The statement extended the Kingdom’s condolences to the families of the victims and to the government and people of Syria. It also wished the injured a speedy recovery.
