The Security Spokesman of the Ministry of Interior said constant efforts by the security men in fighting smuggling, selling and using narcotics resulted in aborting a number of attempts of smuggling narcotics into the kingdom and selling them. The efforts led to the seizure of 3,044,926 tablets of Captagon, 3,055,748 grams of hashish and 10,626 grams of pure heroin. The security men managed to arrest the drugs' smugglers and dealers. Their number was 113 persons. They included 57 Saudis and 56 people of different nationalities. The security spokesman said those involved in the narcotics cases tried to resist the security people in six cases resulting in slight injury of two security men and three smugglers and dealers.
