Patrols of the Border Guards in the region of Najran aborted yesterday an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of hashish weighing 1205 kilograms after exchanging fire with the smugglers, it was reported here today. Commander of the Border Guards in the region Major General Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Alzahrani said the patrols of the Border Guards observed a car trying to cross the border line. The car, carrying two persons, was monitored with the aim of stopping it. When the occupants of the car felt they were monitored by surveillance patrols, they fired at the patrols' members who fired back and one of the smugglers was arrested while the other tried to escape on foot through the mountains and was arrested one hour later after resisting arrest by firing shots. Alzahrani said the car contained a large quantity of hashish weighing 1205 kilograms, a number of automatic weapons and ammunition, military clothes worn by the smugglers to try to deceive the border guards. They were seized to undergo legal measures. The two persons were also detained to undergo investigation.
