Guards at a checkpoint in Umm Al-Sheikh near Al-Harth seized Wednesday 460 bundles of qat hidden in a truck. Further quantities of the prohibited leaf were uncovered at the same checkpoint in a suitcase in a family vehicle, inside the doors of a car, and in the gasoline tank of a fourth vehicle. Police in Jizan said that in total they had seized over 4,000 bundles of qat in a series of smuggling attempts.
