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Two Lankans held for heroin smuggling

Indian Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials arrested two SriLankan Tamils, including a school teacher, and seized from them 1.5kg of heroin concealed inside rice cookers and electric ovens. Theseized drug is estimated to be worth Rs 1.5 crore in theinternational market.

Acting on a tip-off, the NCB officials on Friday night interceptedShanmuganathan, a Sri Lankan, at Chennai Airport just as he was toboard a flight to Sri Lanka. They inspected his hand baggage andfound 750 gm of heroin worth Rs 75 lakhs concealed inside anelectric oven and rice cooker.

The NCB officials took him into custody before handing him over tothe airport police.

The police team learnt that he had been sent to the city by anotheragent, who is active in a smuggling racket in the city.We recovered a mobile SIM card from him and retrieved the mobilecall list. The police mounted a close surveillance at a fewsuspects, whom Shanmuganathan had been talking to before he enteredthe airport, a senior NCB officer said. To page 13。Saudis body to Jeddah after post mortem – Envoy  Mohammed Rasooldeen in Riyadh。The body of a Saudi man who died in Colombo will be sent to Jeddahafter the post mortem, Saudi Ambassador in Colombo Abdul Rahman AlJammaz said.Thameer Saeed Al-Zahrani, 28, died in Sri Lanka on Friday whilebeing rushed to hospital from the Bandaranaike InternationalAirport (BIA).