Border Guard patrols recently foiled an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of hashish into the Kingdom near Al-Mufjah Center here after exchanging fire with a group of smugglers. Commander of Border Guards of Najran Region, Major General Muhammad Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Zahrani, stated that one of the patrols spotted a group of people trying to illegally cross the border into the Kingdom. Al-Zahrani added that when the smugglers felt that they had been spotted, they opened fire at members of the patrol, who responded by firing back causing the smugglers to flee back across the border, leaving behind 22kg of hashish which has been confiscated.
